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| OECD Sierra Madres - Hope, Effort, Poverty, Copper |
I'm stumbling around on my Phoenix-Tucson-Fronteras-Sierra Madres-Bisbee-Tucson-Phoenix-Las Vegas (CES) trip. Have had some time to get a few articles and insights into draft, but need time to get the right pictures etc. I think there is some really new insight into the USA's "E-Wasteland" policy to come out of this.
I've got pictures of mining trucks the size of a three-story restaurant, hauling red rocks and mud from the pits of the earth. I've got pictures of grandmothers' fingers turning tiny screws to release optic sensors from CD roms, which we can sell to laser-pen manufacturers in China. Tomorrow I'll have pictures of the latest new gadgets from the Stuff-a-Plenty show (CES) in Vegas. I had 4 days of intensive conversations (as well as silly movie scene recollections) with Ph.ds and grad students, discussing Marxist vs. Smith labor economics. Along the way I've been meeting with Indie recyclers in the trenches, patching their minivans with duct tape, cruising the streets to take massive wooden projection console Televisions from the spare rooms of retirees, and providing phone support to staff in Middlebury.
Now I have to spend all my remaining time putting together a Powerpoint for the CES Show in Las Vegas. I'll be with an august panel of experts and don't want to wing it. But here is a big insight on what people did that made a difference 50,000 years ago.
