Because, really, we need more things that are meant to be disposable.
Another interesting article today (all three of you faithful readers out there should be getting the idea now that I’m a ZDNet junkie.) It’s interesting to read that these pitchable phones will only make calls, not receive them. Finally, a cell phone that people can take into theatres without earning laser glares of death from the entire audience. On the other hand, people will still rudely *make* calls in the middle of shows. It’s like a baby that doesn’t cry, but still soils its diapers and needs to be changed in the middle of the show. I also loved the line about your phone being your friend. What?!?? My phone is a convenience, not a buddy. For one thing, phone can’t help you move bodies — it can’t even help you move. [Well…not directly.]
And isn’t it time that we reversed a manufacturing trend? The “disposables” manufacturing has been going on for a while (paper plates and cups), but it’s starting to get ridiculous. Things aren’t built to stay in the economy any more, they’re built to be thrown away after a few days or weeks (or a single use). The First World is generating more and more garbage, and all the Third World can conceivably be getting out of it is $.16 an hour (and that’s only for the workers in the Wellco Factory, which manufactures Nike products.)
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