Amazon has become one of the most powerful corporations in the world, and only the second company ever to be valued over US$1 trillion. This film investigates its strategies, inner workings and ideologies and asks whether the services that we have become so dependent on could eventually cost us our hard won freedoms, and how one of the world’s most trusted brands has influenced our individual behaviour, labour force and culture.

In Amazon We Trust

In Silicon Valley, the cradle of digital technology located south of San Francisco, an army of bright young engineers holds so much data about our lives that it has become all-powerful.  Led by the four giants of the Internet, known by the acronym Gafa (Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon), to which we can add Microsoft, this "empire of the future" rebats the world maps by interfering, including via smartphones, in all human interactions.  Zuckerberg versus Trump

Silicon Valley, empire du futur

"Cure and eliminate all diseases by the end of the century": this is the ambition of Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, pediatrician Priscilla Chan, through their foundation, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. For several years now, the Web giants have been investing massively in the world of medicine. While Google is developing an artificial intelligence capable of competing with the best practitioners, Apple is allowing everyone to monitor their health thanks to connected objects, while Amazon is taking over the telemedicine and health insurance markets via Amazon Care, its assistance service. These tech behemoths are banking on the exploitation of health data, the "new black gold", to improve care, reduce costs and prevent illness. But can we trust them with this information blindly?