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是,是,是,新 iPhone,新 IOS,新玩意,便宜,昂貴,等等等等。 沒人需要告訴你你的手機在你買後大約一個半小時就過時了,也沒人需要告訴你你的舊手機要麼堆積在我們的房子裡(我不用離開我的桌子就可以拿到兩部舊手機)[...]

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是,是,是,新 iPhone,新 IOS,新玩意,便宜,昂貴,等等等等。

沒人需要告訴你你的手機在你買後大約一個半小時就過時了,也沒人需要告訴你你的舊手機要麼堆積在我們的房子裡(我不用離開我的桌子就可以拿到兩部舊手機),要麼加入湧入廢物流的電子垃圾浪潮,或者被運往發展中國家,在那裡,收入微薄的人們冒著接觸化學品和其他危險的風險,從垃圾山中開採貴金屬

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這個想法很簡單。 各個製造商在一個樂高式的手機模型中合作,該模型由獨立的模組組成:一個攝像頭模組、一個儲存器模組、一個電池模組、一個螢幕模組,所有模組都安裝在一個基本的網格底座中。 您可以設計自己的手機——選擇您自己的元件,無論是蘋果、三星、諾基亞還是摩托羅拉或其他任何製造商的元件。 組裝完成後,您就得到了它。 新的、更快的晶片問世了? 您可以更換它,而不是整個手機。 如果你想的話。

好吧。 我會等你停止嘲笑的。 沒能理解“各個製造商合作”,是嗎? 我也沒有。 這是一個美好的想法——就像解綁的有線電視節目選擇,以及有價值且廉價的自動門鎖,而沒有汽車上不可靠且昂貴的自動車窗。 或者像獲得最高 MPG 的汽車。

我喜歡這個想法——但要使它奏效,這麼多公司必須選擇根據客戶的選擇,透過交付良好且持久的產品來獲得合理的利潤,而不是根據他們自己的利潤最大化模型,透過交付良好但壽命短的產品來獲得鉅額利潤,以至於這幾乎是不可能實現的。

我的意思是,分享這個影片,儘可能大聲地喊,嘗試讓製造商開始設計比他們的包裝更耐用的電子產品。 我支援它,我與你同在。

但我不能說我很樂觀。

 

Scott Huler was born in 1959 in Cleveland and raised in that city's eastern suburbs. He graduated from Washington University in 1981; he was made a member of Phi Beta Kappa because of the breadth of his studies, and that breadth has been a signature of his writing work. He has written on everything from the death penalty to bikini waxing, from NASCAR racing to the stealth bomber, for such newspapers as the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and the Los Angeles Times and such magazines as ESPN, Backpacker, and Fortune. His award-winning radio work has been heard on "All Things Considered" and "Day to Day" on National Public Radio and on "Marketplace" and "Splendid Table" on American Public Media. He has been a staff writer for the Philadelphia Daily News and the Raleigh News & Observer and a staff reporter and producer for Nashville Public Radio. He was the founding and managing editor of the Nashville City Paper. He has taught at such colleges as Berry College and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

His books include Defining the Wind, about the Beaufort Scale of wind force, and No-Man's Lands, about retracing the journey of Odysseus.

His most recent book, On the Grid, was his sixth. His work has been included in such compilations as Appalachian Adventure and in such anthologies as Literary Trails of the North Carolina Piedmont, The Appalachian Trail Reader and Speed: Stories of Survival from Behind the Wheel.

For 2014-2015 Scott is a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT, which is funding his work on the Lawson Trek, an effort to retrace the journey of explorer John Lawson through the Carolinas in 1700-1701.

He lives in Raleigh, North Carolina, with his wife, the writer June Spence, and their two sons.

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