I recently met someone quite interested in Ethical E-Waste Blog who was 10 years old in 2002.
Then I met someone who was 5 years old when CBS 60 Minutes broadcast "Wasteland" in 2008.
Both flattered me by saying this blog was "inspirational". So I guess I gotta keep it up.
I also recently ran across a lot of film camera photos from my first visit to Guangzhou, China, in 2003. That was 21 years ago. It was a Shark Tank worthy experience. Even if 5-6 blog visitors will find this to be a repeat, there are some new recruits whose minds have yet to be blown. And maybe some readers will be glad for the reminder.
Simon Lin. (Acer, Wistron)
Terry Gou. (Foxconn, Han Hoi Precision Inst.)
Rowell Yang. (Proview, "iPad")
Used Ford Model As created the critical mass of users in the Ozarks and Appalachia who would vote to pave the roads.
Used VCRs and CRT televisions paved the roads for thousands of TV stations and satellites broadcasting to the "Global South".
Used CRT monitors paved the roads for internet cable investors.
Used Flip Phones paved the roads for 170,000 cell phone towers (2017 estimate) on the Africa continent.
Used Solar Voltaic Panels will pave the way for Africans to reduce diesel-electricity generation.
Despite the obvious facts about electricity access and consumption, the truth about the information and mass communications infrastructure, paved by progress from reuse and value-added repair, by the Tech Sector Auteurs, aka Geeks of Color like Simon Lin, Terry Gou, and Rowell Yang, the West (at least Europe and USA) press coverage of their bright past present and future has been eclipsed by an "externalization hypothesis" - that any capitalist trade between someone rich and someone poor is suspect.
Imagine the Moon refusing to leave... a persistent, stubborn eclips of the truth...
