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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>lots of Sunbeam hand mixers still sold,
just not the same as my Mom’s sunshine-yellow, cracked 1970s version. </span></font><font
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[mailto:social-bounces@lists.deeptrouble.com] <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>On
Behalf Of </span></b>Jessica Tanzer Conroy<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Monday, June 07, 2010 8:00
PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> Social Social<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: SOCIAL: Fwd:
Introducing iPhone 4.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:14.4pt'><font size=3
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want to say that I am completely enjoying all of this banter, so thanks.
And my 2 thoughts quickly:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:14.4pt'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>1. Erin....I've
always REALLY wanted one of those Sunbeam mixers. Does thgis mean
they are no longer available?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:14.4pt'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>2. We have a
client who is unfathomably high on the <span class=yshortcuts><span
style='outline-style: none;outline-width: initial;outline-color: initial'
id="lw_1275966944_0">Apple</span></span> chain of command who promised
that we would love the new <span class=yshortcuts><span
style='outline-style: none;outline-width: initial;outline-color: initial;
cursor:pointer' id="lw_1275966944_1">iPhone</span></span>, which was the
deciding factor in us getting an old one, our first, last month. We know
either than to ask questions and decided we wanted the best of the old
version before it was officially old. I think we are happy with that,
yes we are definitely happy with that. And yes, I STILL want that
mixer!. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:14.4pt'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>So who has apps to
suggest for Alexx and I?!<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<span class=apple-style-span><span style='outline-style: none;outline-width: initial;
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<span class=apple-style-span><a href="http://www.conroytanzer.com/"
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outline-color: initial'><font color="#434343"><span style='color:#434343;
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outline-color: initial'>http://www.conroytanzer.com</span></span></font></a></span></span><br
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<a href="http://jessicatanzer.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"
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class=apple-style-span><span style='outline-style: none;outline-width: initial;
outline-color: initial'><font color="#434343"><span style='color:#434343'><span
style='outline-style: none;outline-width: initial;outline-color: initial'>jessicatanzer.blogspot.com</span></span></font></span></span></a><span
class=apple-style-span><font color="#434343"><span style='color:#434343'><span
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</span></font></span>From: Kelly hawk <khawk@apple.com><br>
Subject: Re: SOCIAL: Fwd: Introducing iPhone 4.<br>
To: "Social Social" <social@deeptrouble.com><br>
Date: Monday, June 7, 2010, 6:55 PM<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>I may be quoting out of context and
misattributing... but I believe one of the national leaders of the german
Green party once said "commerce is bad for the environment." AKA,
the less we buy, the better off the earth is. So the fact that my employer
sells anything at all is in some sense bad for the environment, even if they
made toilet paper from grass. But the desire for new powerful phones exists,
some company will fill it. It might as well be as recyclable as
possible. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>I think desktop computers have reached the point of
diminishing returns on frequent churn. I have useful PC's in my home that are
nearly 10 years old and will probably continue to be useful for another 5 or
10 - new desktops today don't do much more than the old ones. They're just
faster with bigger screens, so making durable desktops make sense. Someday
phones will hopefully get to the same place, and it will be appropriate to
make cell phones that could last 10-15 years. It makes no sense to make a
phone that durable today; technology is changing too quickly, so the extra
material that went into making it durable would be wasteful for the majority
of customers. Likewise with furniture and real wood. If you want nice
furniture that you'll own the rest of your life, it'll cost $4,000 and it'll
be hard wood (I have several such pieces, and I intend to have them
reupholstered until I can't see anymore). Otherwise, it'll be made from cheap
pressboard (which is generally post-consumer waste, or at least waste the
mill will have burned if not for pressboard). Seems like reasonable
environmental harm reduction.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>On Jun 7, 2010, at 5:56 PM, Erin Milnes wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I had to part with my Mom’s Sunbeam
mixer, as it just couldn’t cream butter anymore (it had had a good run, maybe
even 35 years). Really made me sad, though -- I learned to bake with it as a
girl by her side (and got to lick the batter off its beaters!). I also had to
give up on my stepmother’s old ‘portable’ Singer, when it couldn’t be
reliably repaired, but it, too, was probably 40 years old.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Don’t get me started on shoes and
clothing. I have dresses that are probably 40 and 50 years old and look fine,
and my son has worn some of my brother’s baby clothes, which I know are 50
years old. I even have two blouses that belonged to my grandmother, who was
born in 1895. They are delicate but still wearable. I have shoes and clothes
that I bought as a teenager, too. Have several of my Mom’s old aprons ... the
list goes on.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>And furniture... what happened to
building with real wood? Press board doesn’t last, and you can’t give it away
after a few years. (Sal Army will not pick up press board furniture donations.)</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>The esprit de corps around keeping and
reusing definitely seems to be different now than it was when I grew up and
when I was a young adult. I think there’s also a bit of a West Coast thing
going on (too hard to schlep antiques across the country). Maybe my family
was unusual, maybe it’s a Midwestern thing, or maybe because I grew up with a
grandmother who guided her family through the Depression (including dealing
with losing their house), the belief that waste is sinful was instilled in
me.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>There’s no doubt that obsolescence is
planned into many products and plain old low-quality is the rule for most
others. I like to feel the years in a tool and touch those memories when I
hold it, though there’s nothing wrong with enjoying a new outfit or gadget
too. It’s important to have a balance. Tom, I think your earlier caution
about consumption is very on the mark.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I’m not sure why/how the values around
consumption and waste in this country have changed so much since I was a kid,
but maybe we can all spiral back to less waste-creating beliefs in an even
better form.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><span
class=apple-converted-space><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> </span></font></span><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'><a
href="/mc/compose?to=social-bounces@lists.deeptrouble.com" target="_blank"
ymailto="mailto:social-bounces@lists.deeptrouble.com">social-bounces@lists.deeptrouble.com</a><span
class=apple-converted-space> </span>[mailto:social-bounces@lists.deeptrouble.com]<span
class=apple-converted-space> </span><b><span style='font-weight:bold'>On
Behalf Of<span class=apple-converted-space> </span></span></b>Tom
Radulovich<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b><span
class=apple-converted-space> </span>Monday, June 07, 2010 5:26 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b><span
class=apple-converted-space> </span>Social<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b><span
class=apple-converted-space> </span>Re: SOCIAL: Fwd: Introducing iPhone
4.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>After I sent this, I looked around at the dead
electronics in view, and tried to imagine the tons and tons of water, oil,
coal, ore, trees, etc. that went into making them, and the tons of carbon
dioxide, soot, mine tailings, fly ash, hydrocarbon sludge, etc.
that they left as waste; it would fill the room I am in several times over -
perhaps the entire building! Sobering.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Then I think about my aunt's KitchenAid mixer, or my
grandmother's chairs, flour sifter, and rolling pin, which still serve me
well although they are all older than I am. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Some folks are thinking about designing things
in very different ways. Worldchanging had an article about designing for
durability and continued usefulness – "heirloom design" which
I quite liked. Think about a fine pen or a watch you can imagine leaving to
your grandchildren (or grandnieces and grandnephews)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>I imagine that at some point, technology will
stabilize, and many devices will do pretty much everything you need them to
do, and do it elegantly. Apple makes quite elegant products, if not
particularly durable ones. Maybe one day there will be the mobile phone
equivalent of the KitchenAid mixer, that will last for decades.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>On Jun 7, 2010, at 5:03 PM, Amandeep Jawa wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'>I will only add that that is why Apple has very
consciously moved to making things out of high grade aluminum and glass
rather than plastic. We have pointed out numerous times that we do this
because these materials (particularly the high grade versions we use) are
sought after in recycling because they are the most valuable.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'>On Jun 7, 2010, at 4:40 PM, Tom Radulovich wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'>It's an excellent point, Palak. These machines are
the product of a culture that plans in obsolescence. Even if you want to hold
on to them (as I do, not necessarily out of virtue, but rather because I am
cheap, and don't like to have to learn how to use new gadgets) they aren't
made to last, or the company that makes them quickly stops supporting them.
As I write this, I am sitting in an office with four non-working printers
that need to be disposed of. I just took a bunch of mobile-phone chargers to
Goodwill for electronics recycling yesterday, and was reminded of how
wasteful (and expensive!) it is that every phone seems to have a unique
charger – while I understand that the EU now requires that all phones sold in
Europe from now on have a standard charger, it seems a way off here in the
US.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'>I started reading John Thackara's book, In the
Bubble, which is about design. He has a great chapter on how much waste that
the electronics industry generates:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'>"Apart from its impact on the wider economy,
information technology is heavy in itself. It's a heavy user of matter in all
the hardware needed to run it. One of the hidden costs of the misnamed
sillicon age is the material and energy flows involved in the manufacture and
use of microchips. It takes 1.7 kilograms of materials to make a microchip
with 32 megabytes of random-access memory - a total of 630 times the mass of
the final product. The "fab" of a basic memory chip, and running it
for the typical life span of a computer, eats up eight hundred times the
chip's weight in fossil fuel. Thousands of potentially toxic chemicals are
used in the manufacturing process. A single microchip is, it is true, a small
thing – on its own. But there are a lot of them about – and many more to
come. Promoters of ubiquitous computing promise us that<span
class=apple-converted-space> </span><i><span style='font-style:italic'>trillions</span></i><span
class=apple-converted-space> </span>of smart embedded devices are on the
way.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'>" The ecological footprint of computing is not
limited to the chips. The manufacture of electronic devices also involves
highly intensive material processes. A great deal of nature has to be moved
during the production of communications equipment. Many components require
the use of high-grade minerals that can be obtained only through major mining
operations and energy-intensive transformation processes. One of the most
startling pieces of information brought to light in Paul Hawken, Amory
Lovins, and Hunter Lovins'<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Natural Capitalism<span
class=apple-converted-space> </span></span></i>is that the amount of
waste matter generated in the manufacture of a single laptop computer is
close to four thousand times its weight on your lap. Fifteen to nineteen tons
of energy and materials are consumed in the fabrication of one desktop
computer. To compound matters: As well as being resource-greedy to make,
information technology devices also have notoriously short lives. The average
compact disc is used precisely once in its life, and every gram of material
that goes into the consumption or production of a computer ends up rather
quickly as either an emission or as solid waste. In theory, electronic
products have technical service lives on the magnitude of thirty years, but
thanks to ever-shorter innovation cycles, many devices are disposed of after
a few years or months."<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'>On Jun 7, 2010, at 3:55 PM, palak joshi wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'>I am not sure if i am supposed to feel like this but
I do anyway. Maybe someone will have an explanaiton that will make me
feel better.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'>I do understand evolution and how things get better
with time..after usage and with new technology. But i cant help but get a
little upset over the fact that the iphone that i had excitedly bought a
couple of years ago is now 'outdated'. It doesnt have any of the things that
4 g (right) have!<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'>Am I supposed to stay committed to my existing phone
(its cracked!) or go for the better one? When does one 'settle down' with a
technology...does that happen when one dies or when one doesnt have any money
...and to me both sound like extreme.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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between consumerism and getting excited with new technology? I have had these
qustions bother me many times...I would love to talk about it if any body
else feels the same way..if not i will wait around for the next topic on
social :)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'>On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 3:47 PM, Amy Muller <<a
href="/mc/compose?to=amymuller@gmail.com" target="_blank"
ymailto="mailto:amymuller@gmail.com">amymuller@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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