Can the industry cope? Josh Lepawsky, Memorial University of Newfoundland Semiconductors are the basic building blocks of microchips. These technological marvels are in everything from lightbulbs and toothbrushes to cars, trains and planes, not to mention […]
The data set provides unique latitude and longitude coordinates for 1,393 semiconductor manufacturing facilities. For full details, see: Lepawsky, Josh. 2024. ‘Climate Change Induced Water Stress and Future Semiconductor Supply Chain Risk’. iScience, January, 108791. […]
Discard studies offers an important concept for tech criticism: defamiliarization. The concept comes from the worlds of art and theatre and basically refers to some sort of device that helps make the familiar or taken […]
There's always an alternative – if there wasn't, the other side wouldn't have to continuously repeat the lie that no alternative is possible.
Cory Doctorow -- pluralistic.net
This is a short talk I gave for an invitation to the Prada Frames “Materials in Flux” symposium.
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“Is electronics repair a right? And if so, who needs it?” Electronics – Ecologies “Consumers’, advocates’, and resellers’ demands for a “Right to Repair” seems to be gaining broader acceptance. Policymakers around the world have […]
“Late in 2021, Apple announced that it would permit individual consumers to repair their own devices. This is welcome news for advocates who have been campaigning for years in the U.S., the EU, and elsewhere […]
The fourth installment of the ELECTRONICS – ECOLOGIES series, MANUFACTURING, was held at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore on Monday 4 December 2023. You can view the article discussed in this presentation via: Lepawsky, Josh. […]
Without semiconductors there are no electronics and without sufficient water, there are no semiconductors. New research published in iScience provides a global analysis of semiconductor manufacturing locations and the projected future water stress they are […]
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