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Another independent study concluded that the iPhone 6s created 57% more CO2 than the iPhone 4s. And despite the recycling programs run by Apple and others, “based on our research and other sources, currently less than 1% of smartphones are being recycled,” Lotfi Belkhir, the study’s lead author, tells me."
Description. From Gizmag: "Trexa has revealed details of a lithium-powered, all-wheel vehicle development platform that will enable engineers and developers to create custom "vehicle apps", doing for builders of electric vehicles what the iPhone did for application developers.
This was before YouTube and the iPhone, so she posted DIY instructions for the projects on her personal website. Soon she was bombarded with requests to sell pre-assembled kits. "At first I was like, 'No dude, I'm really busy, leave me alone,'" she says. But ...
This could be a car or a fork, an iPhone or an app. Through testing, the McLuhans found that the field of study is even larger than that: “ … we learned that they applied to more than what is conventionally called ‘media’; they were applicable to all the products of human endeavour, and also to the endeavour itself!
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0. Zak Stein and Marc Gafni: "The idea of “world-systems” is essential for any serious thinking about evolutionary futures for the human species (see: Wallerstein, World Systems Analysis.). World-system analysis is a growing transdisciplinary field, encompassing economics, politics, sociology, and history. The modern world-system, which began to em...
"I contend contra widely accepted contentions to the contrary that the world-system has not fundamentally changed in recent decades as regards its basic structural features. Most of the events that are depicted as new departures are in fact continuations of cycles and trends long in operation. In Global Formation (Chase-Dunn 1989: Chapters 3 and 4)...
Jannis Mossmann: "Modern World-System theory is a historical approach which describes the last five centuries by a specific single, growing world-system (Shannon). This world-system, separate from a world-empire or a socialist system, represents the structure in which almost every country is integrated today. It is characterized by a capitalist wor...
Encyclopedia.com: "World-system analysis arose during the 1970s, primarily through the writings of Immanuel Wallerstein. Wallerstein identifies four intellectual antecedents that emerged between 1945 and 1970 as promulgating the emergence of world-system theory: (1) the study of Latin American history, contemporary politics, and foreign relations, ...
Christopher Chase-Dunn et al: "The world-systems perspective was invented for modeling and interpretingthe expansion and deepening of the capitalist regional system as it emerged inEurope and incorporated the whole globe over the past 500 years (Wallerstein1974; Chase-Dunn 1998; Arrighi 1994). 1. The idea of a core/periphery hierarchy composed of ‘...
Description. By Glyn Moody: "More about Neo FreeRunner: a Linux-based touch screen smart phone ultimately aimed at general consumer use as well as Linux desktop users and software developers. Linux users and software developers will appreciate the total freedom they have to use and design software for the FreeRunner.
Abstract. "Can efforts to eradicate inequality in wealth and education eliminate intergenerational persistence of socioeconomic status? The Chinese Communist Revolution and Cultural Revolution aimed to do exactly that.