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 […]
The Social Media Collective (SMC), a research group at Microsoft Research Labs, is hiring a social sciences post-doc. As the SMC website states: This is an ideal opportunity for a new Ph.D. to conduct original […]
Mél Hogan (@mel_hogan@mstdn.ca) is a professor of film and media studies who also produces the The Data Fix podcast. The podcast is a project arising from something perhaps ineffable that broke during the COVID pandemic. […]
This is an experiment in writing-as-thinking-on-the-go. It’s inspired by Cory Doctorow’s Pluralistic blog. It uses the library function of Zotero to create a publicly available ‘memex‘ of notes and writing for a notional public audience. […]
This is a project I’m calling, ‘The Last Computer’. It boils down to these questions: What if I could not buy another computer? How long can I keep the computers I already have in working […]
The electronics repair and maintenance sector in China offers significant conservation value when measured in terms of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e). Under the scenarios we examine the RMC sector avoids between 65 million and 212 […]
I have a paper published called, “Mapping chemical discardscapes of electronics production” (it’s free to download). It’s about pinpointing what researchers can learn about the electronics sector and the chemicals that are released during the […]
The EU’s electronics repair sector reduces carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) by 3-10 million tonnes over new manufactures.
A world of 2030 in which repair could be part of the scaffold that builds it is one based not on efficiency, but sufficiency. — Lepawsky (2020)
Within one or two decades, the mass of electronic devices discarded by consumers could exceed 100 million tons annually. Yet, far more pollution and waste arise “upstream” during the mining for and manufacturing of electronics. […]
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