CS101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Electronic Waste, Planned Obsolescence, Externalization
5 Jan 2020
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Maxwell and miller article: techno enthusiasm of communication industries and talking about material world and issues. Images of a small or shrinking world doesn"t factor in environmental issues about the consumption and production and waste of industries: we have to think about the physical environment moving beyond virtual, to think about material issues. Planned obsolescence (particular marketing/production strategy to design things to go in the garbage so that you have to continue buying new products) Thinking about disposal the cycle of constantly new productions. The majority of external trade with america is being sent to asia. This is because of a change in trees: un convention, international tree named after basil switzerland part of un environmental program, trying to find a way in which hazardous materials travelled around the world. They made it more difficult for people to shift hazardous materials across regions. The way people got around this was increasing the amount of trade within regions.
