Inside the Hellscape Where Our Computers Go to Die

the world discarded some 46 million tons of electronic gadgetry last year. Less than one-sixth was properly recycled or reused. It’s only going to get worse. Global e-waste is expected to 55.1 million tons in 2018. China and the United States produce the most waste—32 percent of the global total last year—and some of that stuff is landing in Agbogbloshie.

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US Moves Towards Skynet System Handing Control of Nuclear Weapons to Supercomputer

In a move echoing the apocolyptic situation played out in the Terminator series of films, the US government is handing over control of its nuclear stockpile to computers. In the Terminator films the US government develops a computer system called Skynet which is designed to have command over all computerised military hardware and systems, including America's entire nuclear weapons arsenal.

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