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Elegant Failure
These waste bins are close to Shibuya Station. What do you see?
It may look like piles of discarded manga but it is in fact an example of recycling, market efficiency plus elegant failure. At 4am on Saturday morning the bins are overflowing from last night's revellers. Normally the manga is placed in the bins along with the other rubbish. But with the bins full the manga is more easily set aside for recycling and resale.
A couple of threads come out of this. What actions or objects trigger copycat behaviours? In what contexts? And for digital services that provide storage space, what steps are taken to find temporary alternatives?
Writing from Tokyo | June 4, 2006 | Permalink
Comments
Mangas are comics. Do you see anything drawn on the covers? I don't. It looks more like fashion magazines.
Posted by: asdf at September 19, 2006 5:16 PM