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CIMS 3.3
CIMS QUIZ 3
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Common Carriage | Anyone should have access to it. This is why some systems became nationalized. |
| Digital Divide | A gap of internet access between the rural and urban areas. |
| Last Mile | While companies wanted the internet to be a global thing, there were just some are the US that had slow to no access |
| One Laptop Per Child | 2005-2014 Theory Seymour Paper. $100 laptops. Uruguay Rwanda Peru. Give 1 Get 1. Failed |
| Skills Gap | Different levels to use to being online. Typically children have easier time understanding. |
| Project Aquila | Lightweight solar powered. 2016-2017 tests. Facebook Drones as a atmospheric satellites. |
| Project Loon | Google helium balloons. Pilots in New Zealand, Brazil, Kenya, California, |
| Starlink | SpaceX 6000 LEO satellites for global broadband. Served in Ukraine war zones and rural US at 100-200Mbps. WiFi |
| Foxconn (multiple) | Taiwanese company with facroties in China. Over 1 million employees. China's largest private employer. |
| iPhone City | Zhengzhou 350,000 employees. Low pay, long houses. |
| Samsung | Vietnam factories. Women in their 20s. High rates of miscarriages, cancer, health problems. 2016 85$ million in compensation. |
| Server Farms | AKA data centers. The cloud has a greater carbon footprint than the airline industry. Consumes 20% of global electricity. A crazy amount of carbon emissions. 70% of internet traffic goes through Virginia data center. |
| E-Waste | Planned obsolescence. Selling e-waste. Guiyu, China "e-waste capital of the world" |
| Bitcoin Mining | Decode hashes, rewarded with bitcoin. Bitcoin e-waste as much as a midsized country (like Argentina and Poland). Huge carbon footprint and toxic materials. |
| Daisy | Apple experiment. Helps deconstruct an iPhone. Makes the process of recycling easier. More material to make another iPhone. Takes the material from old phones to use into new phones. |