Amazon is spending copious amounts of money looking for ways to automate labor currently done by human workers.

The company is hoping to replace more than half a million jobs with robots by 2033, as the New York Times reported this week (the company is currently the United States’ second-largest employer after Walmart.)

And in the meantime, it’s looking to make the human workers it’s stuck with as machine-like as possible. Just look at the company’s efforts to enhance its delivery drivers’ productivity with new smart glasses that can scan packages and provide turn-by-turn directions on the road.

Whether the goal is to make the lives of its already overworked drivers easier, or to squeeze every last drop out of them by turning them into dystopian cyborg drones that record their every mov

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