Story of Electronics

The presented video is impressive and I agree that we should realize some points from that, but on the other hand stay calm.  Last few years appeared many pseudo documents with conspiracy theories and issues that should take our attention. I saw for instance “Who Killed the Electric Car?” which is quite an interesting presentation created by activists. Unfortunately there are many things that can make us feel bad after realizing that. For example, the quality of food in central and eastern Europe is much lower than in western Europe. I can buy roughly same food in The Czech republic as here, but content differs and in my home country we eat less quality products. Coca Cola’s content differs too.
            Fortunately not everything is so bad, let’s see the example from the beginning of the story with different chargers for any device. For European market the new standards are promoted by the European Commission which should unify chargers for main phone producers.
            Moore’s law is definitely true and we may ask ourselves whether we would like to still use notebook which we bought let’s say ten years ago. Sure it is crazy to put to trash bin our devices and buy new ones every two years, but we fortunately don’t have to. From my personal experience same notebook can be used for more than three years, and my previous phone lasted about five years and reason why it didn’t last longer was that it got wet when I was canoeing.
            Working environment is terrible in developing countries in general, it is not only connected with electronics. We can see the example of company that produce the jeans in Bangladesh, this case appeared a few days ago in news, they use techniques which cause much higher probability of cancer for workers. And also we can hear of nets in a factory where Apple products are made. They have nets to avoid workers’ suicides when they try to jump from bridge, for instance. It is really crazy I think and at some point it is good to show such cases in news, it makes pressure to companies to change that.
            Of course there are many unfair things around the world, like poverty in Africa.
And it appears to be great idea to contribute with money to some charity helping in this area, but this idea isn’t carried out in the best way. For example my friend’s relative is working in such company and he asked me: “When you give let’s say 100 SEK, how much you think is really going the people who desperately need the money?” and the answer was 8 SEK. There is such a huge administrative chain that is unfortunately consuming that much.                
            I don’t want to be that negative, but there are many problems in the world. And our work is not to solve them all. But we should try to do our best like recycling, buying things made without children’s work. Also it is great from time to time to go to some volunteer project. I already participated at 3 of them and I try not to think of global issues too much. It would only make us crazy to be worried about everything bad around.