Amazon wants to send your packages to you before you order them

In 2012, YouTube comedy group The Bilderbergers released a popular animated sketch called “Amazon Yesterday Shipping,” an extended joke about Amazon.com delivering the things you want before you even order them. And while Amazon still hasn’t perfected time travel, the company now owns a patent for “anticipatory package shipping,” a system that predicts what you’ll order and sends it to an Amazon facility near you, rerouting it to your address as soon as you click to pay.