The NYTimes covers today gold and computers, from birth to death, and what that implies for poor places. After a month-long investigation, "much of the gold left to be mined is microscopic and is being wrung from the earth at enormous environmental cost." Behind Gold's Glitter. Similarly, a new report (visit BAN) finds that too often "'building bridges over the digital divide' are used as excuses to obscure and ignore the fact that these bridges double as toxic waste pipelines," exporting computer waste to poor nations. NYT
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I realize, in advance, the absurdity of this comment, but in Perdido Street Station by China Miéville, there's a huge junkyard full of old computers and refrigerators and home appliances and modems - and it becomes conscious of itself (it's a sci-fi novel), and starts sort of anatomically reprogramming all the junk in the wasteyard. All the waste in the junkyard. Anyway, that photo in the NYT made me think of it... Long day.
You mean like this, Geoff?
Exactamundo...
The second dispatch in the NYT's ongoing series, 'Cost of Gold'
Tangled Strands in Fight Over Peru Gold Mine
and try to check this out: The Curse of Inca Gold (PBS: FRONTLINE / Oct. 25, 2005 at 9pm)
What's up with that link?
fixed, thx.
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