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Out of Our Minds
I lived in Tokyo when the terrible sarin incident occurred. In a clean-obsessed society like Japan, for the weeks after the attack it was difficult to manage life in the train stations without public trash cans. Officials held that the removal was necessary for safety reasons. Thus I was surprised on my recent trip to Tokyo to see the return of trash bins and their clever design.
With its see-through sides, each of the bins is subject to the collective intelligence of passersby on the train platform. This open approach thus solves the problem of regular monitoring by officials, and also increases public consciousness of waste/recycling.
2 Responses to “Open Source Garbage”
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Nice article! However, I must take exception to the title. “Open Garbage”, maybe, or even “Open Wastecans”. I expected “Open Source Garbage” to be a rant about lack of simplicity in open source.
Lack of simplicity in open source? Don’t get me started. That’s an important topic to me. I find it funny when I hear people saying how great an open-OS like Linux is because when it’s broke, “You can fix it yourself.” Uh, I’m a pretty good coder and I know I don’t stand a chance to have a clue how to fix Linux if it were broke. Thanks for the mind jog, Bart.