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Consumption, Disposal Transparency

Transparent recycling bins in Shibuya station.

The extent that transparency of what is disposed changes consumption habits. to what extent is a consumer less likely to buy products with a social stigma such as a pornographic magazine or more virtuous products when the act of consumption and disposal is transparent? To what extent does the task of removing, managing, recycling objects change with greater transparency? How is this Shibuya Station cleaner's job (pictured above) different. Is it harder or easier and why?

And looking towards a future imperfect where digital storage capacity is essentially unlimited, and government (and other overseeing authorities) consider it their duty to track and observe the minutiae of consumption. How long before digital delete button disappears completely? Or has it happened already?

Related: the likelihood of what we carry being discovered affecting what is carried, here.

And, on a more topical note the transparency of edits to Wikipedia affecting the future likelihood of people contributing to that project. A bunch of worthy/innocuous edits from my employer's domain here.

Writing from back of | August 22, 2007 | Permalink