Nope, I knew it. You see, I had already been using Amazon back in 2000, and was very satisfied since I could get English books without any hassle in Germany. All those other companies, well, I didn't ever see or touch their products. They were scammers, just like 95% of the stock market, bullshitting companies leveraging themselves from one bond to the next and got NOTHING to show for.
Don't you think he has already impacted civilization? I sell about 50% of my company products via Amazon - I mean it's a real rip-off and expensive, they are earning themselves silly - but Amazon itself has changed things, hasn't it? Maybe that made all his screws fall out...
They expanded from books to everything else at record speed. The growth is probably due to drop shipping.
I think his work impacted a temporal segment of society but not civilization. Just the same as how Walmart and McDonalds impacted society. The destruction of the Mayans impacted civilization. In comparison, Bezos is just another node on the greater impact of the technology roadmap.
We'll see what he does next.