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...TIME Silicon Valley correspondent Chris Taylor takes us through the implications...
...died four years ago this month at the age of 80, wrote a columns with items held in a perfect balance. He shaped the image of Baghdad-by-the-Bay for generations of San Franciscans, long before anyone thought of the swampy South Bay as some sort of silicon valley. These items are in Caen's honor...
...someone in the cockpit of a fighter plane. The F-22 is so capital-intensive that no other country can play at that level. But a next generation of weapons needn't be more expensive. Opting to replace a flesh-and-blood pilot with a piece of silicon would ultimately save us a lot of money. Likewise if we made our next class of destroyer a minimally staffed floating weapons platform capable of firing hundreds of cruise missiles...
...cement-floored warehouse in upstate New York, half a dozen women sit hunched over computer workstations. Holding a heat gun in one hand and metal tweezers in the other, they pry silicon chips from circuit boards like dentists extracting little metal teeth. Down the hall, a jumble of bright green motherboards spills out onto a conveyor belt headed toward a shredder that will rip them to cracker-size pieces of plastic. And around the corner, a clean-cut guy in a black work smock takes a big hammer and smashes one hard drive after another before tossing them into...
Still, critics insist that more work needs to be done. "The efforts in the U.S. have been chaotic and will not be successful until companies start picking up the excess costs," says activist Ted Smith of the Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition. In their defense, U.S. manufacturers insist that government and consumers must share the responsibility--and the cost...