My partner and I were talking recently about apple watches and how if they existed under a different system then they could really be for the greater good. What are some other things that would have been very good under communism?
My partner and I were talking recently about apple watches and how if they existed under a different system then they could really be for the greater good. What are some other things that would have been very good under communism?
this deserves to be an entirely seperate post but disposable ubituitous personal computers aren't sustainable. the unchecked extraction of lithium and coltan is not sustainable. if we want microchips to exist in the 22nd century, we will have to design them to last longer and benefit more people rather than just enabling megacorporations to harvest gigabytes of redundant data on the consumption habits of one citizen of the imperial core for a total of 5 years before going into a landfill.
I think the issue is disposable part, the west probably chewed over enough coltan 3 earth over from 80s onwards
I think there’s great possibility in developing Sodium and potassium based technologies to replace lithium- the issue is they are going to be heavier
Which is fine for a phone or grid storage. Lithium is only useful where weight savings = efficiency savings Like vehicles. But car bad and an electric train could probably be fine with heavier batteries.