The basic design flaw in the architecture of technological modernity (both industrial and digital) is we’ve learned to design for obsolescence before learning to design for mortality. Like those many-armed aliens in HHG that invented aerosol deodorant before the wheel.
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Caricature though it is, Marie Kondo’s animism (thanking objects for their service before disposal etc) points the way to an ethos of object mortality/impermanence informing engineering. Design for wabi-sabi.
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Agree that it’s a symptom. And the *only* way to move past today’s broken resource management paradigms is to put waste-mapping tools in billions of hands.https://www.change.org/p/want-google-to-activate-waste-hazard-reporting …
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