Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 5, 2008

The military and tourism are Guam's two big industry. Japan is the biggest source of tourists for Guam, with growing numbers from other Asian nations like South Korea. But, we're hoping to tune up the local language synthesis, or supplement our text e-books with human narration, which might be more practical.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 5, 2013

South Korea also has a developed electronics recycling system that now recovers and properly processes over 75 percent of discarded electronics. They are developing an industrial capacity, for instance, with companies like Trishyiraya Recycling in Southern India. percent, the highest in the world.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2022

Airbnb and Uber emerged as platform companies providing services without actually owning hotels (in the case of Airbnb) and vehicles (in the case of Uber—soon to be joined by Lyft), and quickly came to disrupt and dominate their respective industries. Racist practices familiar within capitalism are also reproduced in the platform economy.

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