A "smart city?" The only shop for products, food, and healthcare while tracking us? A biometrics palm scanner? All autonomous vehicles and public transit? No more cash or credit cards – all digital currency? The ability to freeze our accounts or prevent us from purchasing certain items? Does this sound crazy? It should! Let's take a look at the rollout and possible ways to navigate and combat some of this.

Amazon's been quite busy progressing in areas most people are unaware of. This goes far beyond taking out the little guys – they're going for the middlemen, and heading straight for your family. How are they pulling all of this off?

Don't miss our weekly Dig It! Podcast on April 23rd where we discussed several of the details in this report.

Amazon's "Takeover" Consists of 3 Stages, In A Nutshell:

Stage One: Obliterate the competition by taking over the organic food market, media, crushing all bookstores to control content, provide nearly every consumer product and get others to sell through your shop, and beefing up production with expedited shipping to make it so desirable, no one can compete, and everyone comes to rely on Amazon.