{"id":460,"date":"2014-09-09T12:25:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-09T16:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2014\/09\/09\/alternative-programming-what-happened-to-your-last-iphone\/"},"modified":"2014-09-09T12:25:00","modified_gmt":"2014-09-09T16:25:00","slug":"alternative-programming-what-happened-to-your-last-iphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2014\/09\/09\/alternative-programming-what-happened-to-your-last-iphone\/","title":{"rendered":"Alternative programming: What happened to your last iPhone?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-oHEy0yHFPH4\/VA8ps7B7WPI\/AAAAAAAABRs\/1j-1rkK8wtE\/s1600\/iphone2013-0245.jpg\" height=\"240\" width=\"400\" \/><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><\/div>\n<p>If you follow the world of tech, you are no doubt aware that Apple is planning to announce some new products today. These likely include a new iPhone model as well as a possible wearable gadget. The wearable tech arms race is escalating with Google Glass, the Galaxy Gear, and the Moto 360, and Apple&#8217;s additions are expected to blow this field out of the water.<\/p>\n<p>We love keeping up on phone and tablets, but it&#8217;s important to recognize the less seemly aspects of the tech industry. Despite electronic devices ostensibly being an investment, they are manufactured with disposability and replacement in mind. Chances are you&#8217;ve gone through several phones in the last few years, sometimes for a stylish update but often because they just peter out at some point. This is hardly a mistake, and the tech industry thrives on your continued purchase of new hardware. Even after your old phone is gone, the resulting e-waste is enormously toxic and disruptive.<\/p>\n<p>After everyone loses their mind over the iWatch or iGlasses or whatever Apple rolls out today, consider watching one of these documentaries that looks at why you&#8217;re trading in your iPhone and what&#8217;s happens to it afterwards. There&#8217;s nothing wrong with wanting to swap out your old phone for the new model, but keep in mind the consequences of and business models built around this behavior.<\/p>\n<p>Terra Blight \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/catalog.wrlc.org\/cgi-bin\/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=12155955\">DVD 10630<\/a><br \/>The Light Bulb Conspiracy: The Untold Story of Planned Obsolescence \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/catalog.wrlc.org\/cgi-bin\/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=12155929\">DVD 10648<\/a><br \/>Planned Obsolescence: Why Some Durable Goods Aren&#8217;t So Durable \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/catalog.wrlc.org\/cgi-bin\/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=12979044\">Streaming video<\/a>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you follow the world of tech, you are no doubt aware that Apple is planning to announce some new products today. These likely include a new iPhone model as well as a possible wearable gadget. The wearable tech arms race is escalating with Google Glass, the Galaxy Gear, and the Moto 360, and Apple&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[355],"class_list":["post-460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recommendations","tag-timely-things"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}