Published July 2, 2008
by iris_author
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This video and a recent TIME Magazine article explores the consequences of our obsession with computers and tech gadgets and inability to recycle them in any viable way. Slag heaps of toxic chemicals are contaminating entire communities in China, India, Nigeria, and countless other poor countries where our electronic detritus is being dumped. While this problem has been around for years, the sheer volume of the ever more rapid obsolescence and replacement cycle is leading to a very dark Max Headroom-style cyberpunk future. Laptops and cell phones while smaller than the CRT computer screens of yesterday, contain an even more exotic and dangerous slew of metals and compounds, which groups like the Basel Action Network are struggling to cope with as noted in this audio broadcast.
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