https://rose.geog.mcgill.ca/wordpress/?p=42 Sun, 30 Jan 2005 03:09:21 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.8.10 https://rose.geog.mcgill.ca/wordpress/?p=42&cpage=1#comment-72 Sun, 30 Jan 2005 03:09:21 +0000 /?p=42#comment-72 Well, it’s funny that they’re lasting so long in the waste stream (in terms of the length of their biodegrading), and yet they’re not lasting so long in their use for us.

]]> https://rose.geog.mcgill.ca/wordpress/?p=42&cpage=1#comment-71 Sun, 30 Jan 2005 01:45:44 +0000 /?p=42#comment-71 What computing technology that exists today will exist 100 years from now? Forget 100 years. How about 10 years from now? I know that the original bulky cell phones of the 70s and 80s are making a comeback as a retro fashion accessory. (Can you believe it? Cell phones are over 30 years old!) But I cannot think of any device that will survive for too long in its approximate current form. Perhaps the power bar.

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