Geographers like me are really interested in understanding landscape changes. I’ve been doing some research on how the infrastructure of digital life (e.g., data centers or semiconductor fabs) is inscribed into real locations, what that […]
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On Planned Obsolescence
Some months ago I was contacted by a journalist. Despite the interview, the story seems to have never run. Here’s what I was asked and how I responded. Journalist: Are products really designed to die […]
Is Net Positive Water a Thing?
Semiconductors are the foundational building blocks of all computing devices–whether that’s an AI model, a car, a phone, or a cheap greeting card that lights up and sings a song. And making semiconductors needs lots […]
Social Scientist job in tech
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 […]
Electronic Planet Research Lab 