Comments on: Welcome to the e-wasteland http://boingboing.net/2009/07/07/welcome-to-the-e-was.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Mon, 20 May 2013 07:50:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Miles Technologies http://boingboing.net/2009/07/07/welcome-to-the-e-was.html#comment-537898 Miles Technologies Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-537898 Looking at this photograph, it is difficult to argue the growing need for computer recycling initiatives. http://milestechnologies.com/PublicPages/Computer-Recycling.aspx Looking at this photograph, it is difficult to argue the growing need for computer recycling initiatives. http://milestechnologies.com/PublicPages/Computer-Recycling.aspx

]]> By: jphilby http://boingboing.net/2009/07/07/welcome-to-the-e-was.html#comment-537131 jphilby Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-537131 Recent NPR report: http://www.npr.org/programs/watc/features/2002/apr/computers/index.html (Audio requires Real player. Arrrgh NPR: WHY?) Recent NPR report:
http://www.npr.org/programs/watc/features/2002/apr/computers/index.html

(Audio requires Real player. Arrrgh NPR: WHY?)

]]> By: JL Bryan http://boingboing.net/2009/07/07/welcome-to-the-e-was.html#comment-536133 JL Bryan Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-536133 Thank God they found another word to stick an "e-" in front of. Thank God they found another word to stick an
“e-” in front of.

]]> By: P1rat3 http://boingboing.net/2009/07/07/welcome-to-the-e-was.html#comment-536141 P1rat3 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-536141 "Every year, Gerrard writes, 20 to 50 million of electronic waste is generated worldwide." I am assuming you meant to add a measure of weight. Tons or tonnes? “Every year, Gerrard writes, 20 to 50 million of electronic waste is generated worldwide.”

I am assuming you meant to add a measure of weight. Tons or tonnes?

]]> By: Clemoh http://boingboing.net/2009/07/07/welcome-to-the-e-was.html#comment-536149 Clemoh Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-536149 Mercurial. Mercurial.

]]> By: mdh http://boingboing.net/2009/07/07/welcome-to-the-e-was.html#comment-536150 mdh Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-536150 I've seen a bigger pile of monitors exposed to the elements in Baltimore. I’ve seen a bigger pile of monitors exposed to the elements in Baltimore.

]]> By: bnt http://boingboing.net/2009/07/07/welcome-to-the-e-was.html#comment-536155 bnt Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-536155 This year it's in BB Gadgets, next year it's in India or China. Isn't technology fab? This year it’s in BB Gadgets, next year it’s in India or China. Isn’t technology fab?

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2009/07/07/welcome-to-the-e-was.html#comment-536168 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-536168 "I am assuming you meant to add a measure of weight. Tons or tonnes?" Maybe it's grams and they're just being drama queens about it. “I am assuming you meant to add a measure of weight. Tons or tonnes?”

Maybe it’s grams and they’re just being drama queens about it.

]]> By: pennyfarthing http://boingboing.net/2009/07/07/welcome-to-the-e-was.html#comment-536183 pennyfarthing Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-536183 Looking at that picture makes me feel like a kid looking at a pile of sand... I just really really want to climb it and root around for bits Looking at that picture makes me feel like a kid looking at a pile of sand… I just really really want to climb it and root around for bits

]]> By: zuzu http://boingboing.net/2009/07/07/welcome-to-the-e-was.html#comment-536451 zuzu Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-536451 If you haven't seen it already, <a href="http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/ghana804/">Frontline World - <i>Ghana: Digital Dumping Ground</i></a>. If you haven’t seen it already, Frontline World – Ghana: Digital Dumping Ground.

]]> By: Ian70 http://boingboing.net/2009/07/07/welcome-to-the-e-was.html#comment-536461 Ian70 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-536461 @5 Well done, Sir. That's precisely why I don't give much of a hoot about new technology. Also, incidentally, why I view a truckload of new gadgets the same way I view a truckload of as-yet-unused-diapers. @5 Well done, Sir. That’s precisely why I don’t give much of a hoot about new technology. Also, incidentally, why I view a truckload of new gadgets the same way I view a truckload of as-yet-unused-diapers.

]]> By: bcsizemo http://boingboing.net/2009/07/07/welcome-to-the-e-was.html#comment-536206 bcsizemo Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-536206 You know I think we need to redefine what a developing country is. When they start providing us with tech support, they have crossed over from developing to developed. Developed enough to be sucked into the wasteland of multinational corporations and greed. You know I think we need to redefine what a developing country is. When they start providing us with tech support, they have crossed over from developing to developed. Developed enough to be sucked into the wasteland of multinational corporations and greed.

]]> By: The Jones Ultimatum http://boingboing.net/2009/07/07/welcome-to-the-e-was.html#comment-536226 The Jones Ultimatum Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-536226 Those pics looked like my bedroom/utility room/basement and garage looked like a few years back,when I used to lovingly collect old PCs and monitors from local small companies. Then I would build working PCs from the bits and give/sell them. Never got round to all that acid cooking of components though. Poor people having to rely on local water in those areas in the pics. Globalisation in action. :( Those pics looked like my bedroom/utility room/basement and garage looked like a few years back,when I used to lovingly collect old PCs and monitors from local small companies.
Then I would build working PCs from the bits and give/sell them.
Never got round to all that acid cooking of components though.
Poor people having to rely on local water in those areas in the pics.
Globalisation in action.
:(

]]> By: invisibelle http://boingboing.net/2009/07/07/welcome-to-the-e-was.html#comment-536248 invisibelle Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-536248 Interesting. My FMIL works at the environmental/forestry ministry of the Indian government. Finally I have some conversation fodder for next time I see her. Interesting. My FMIL works at the environmental/forestry ministry of the Indian government. Finally I have some conversation fodder for next time I see her.

]]> By: JoshP http://boingboing.net/2009/07/07/welcome-to-the-e-was.html#comment-536263 JoshP Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-536263 fifty years from now art students will use pictures like this in collages about planned obsolescence. Other 'artists' may have learned how to knap a monitor screen into a dagger blade to rob the then artists of their earnings from said collages. Either way we'll probably be dead already from mercury and cadmium poisoning. That's what I get from this article. fifty years from now art students will use pictures like this in collages about planned obsolescence. Other ‘artists’ may have learned how to knap a monitor screen into a dagger blade to rob the then artists of their earnings from said collages.
Either way we’ll probably be dead already from mercury and cadmium poisoning. That’s what I get from this article.

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