Saturday, September 15, 2007

Week 4 assignment

Electronic waist is such a problem because no one wants to deal with it. Even after a electronic item has been "recycled" there are still parts left that no one knows what to do with. This is a huge problem because we end up sending our wast and problems to other poorer countries to deal with. It isn't a fair or just solution but it is easy. It is hard for a company to willingly loose money by recycling of there electronics a different way.
My own habits could change a lot involving how I dispose of my old electronics. For one I can maybe pay a little more and have my electronics safely recylced, and I can donate them to goodwill, or other foundations. Many electronics can be reused by other people and they don't need to be destroyed.
I think that the most effective thing we can do is to help raise awareness. The more people know about how there electronics are disposed off the more chance change will happen.

Saturday, September 8, 2007

Writting assignment 3- internet archive

The Internet archives were created to offer permanent access for researchers, historians, and scholars to outdated websites that would have been replaced on the Internet if not for this archive. The archive captures all sorts of information ranging from older texts to actual web pages. This site also has a data base of old audio files, moving images, and software.

The archive has many important uses. The Internet, like any other written record of human history, should be preserved for future generations to study and further understand out technological evolution and human behavior. Three main uses of the archive are: to track the Internets evolution and see how it has changed over the years; To better understand the economy and see how effective different things like advertising have been throughout the years on different web sites; and to exercises "our right to remember". Exercising out right to remember is really the most important use of the archive. With so much of our businesses and political world going digital these days it is important to record it all. It is a new part of our history just as important as a history book or library of congress.