In 2020s tech years, my phone is old. In human years, it’s old enough to have just started school.
I’ve really liked using @ivory – it’s been a great app – but because the version I’m stuck at can’t play nicely with the way Mastodon now does things, I think I just need to delete the app, to force myself into using the web client on my phone.
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No, I’m not going to ‘just upgrade my phone’
…I should just upgrade my phone, right? Well…
Philippe makes clear that “every smartphone that we build today will be a resource which is *not available* for a radiologist, for a surgeon, or for any kind of medical device”.
This is of course just one pointed example of how our economy is dissipative of the resources it consumes, in particular its metals.
Philippe talks through how diverse the extent of recyclability is with respect to different metals…
