Post #1866313
2026-04-29 05:56 UTC
People apparently don't have the memory of technology to realize things like, the first pocket calculators were bad. They were unreliable, they ate up batteries and were the size of a paperback novel, you had to punch in your calculation at least twice to check it.
But it was better than what came before it and now they're all over and even allowed on tests.
But they're all made with earth-damaging processes and materials. Do we really need them? That's the bigger question.
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@wilbr@glitch.social 2026-04-29 06:01
As much as we rail against, say, the unethicalness of smart phones, I do think keeping the one same everything-device for 10 years is probably better than going through the mass amounts of paper, plastic, and gasoline required to graduate school or do business without it though. The consumption and transportation and energy requirements of disposable physical vs long-lived digital things is pretty drastic. Giant water-hogging data centers though? Seems excessive