February 06, 2007
Fill landfills with TVs by Feb. 17, 2009
Today I read on Wired's Gadget Lab blog that TVs like my analog rabbit-ears beauty may stop working in the US on February 17, 2009.
Warning: This TV Set is Obsolete and New bill proposes analog TV warning.
Does this seem incredibly short-sighted to anyone else? Like a great dumping into our landfills? Like a suicidal boom for the cheap overseas labourers that will have to dismantle and salvage the heavy metals in the TVs? Like an incredible forced migration to cable / Internet / phone service television as over-the-air signals cease to exist?
Late at night like now I sometimes overreact and start to believe we don't deserve to survive as a species. Everything else living on this planet would be better off without us.
Thank goodness that skiing in Big White over the weekend was such a great time with old friends. Photos, to come.
How's that for a rollercoaster ride?
Posted by James Sherrett at February 6, 2007 10:58 PM