Apple’s iPad and the Human Costs for Workers in China - NYTimes.com: "“Are you Lai Xiaodong’s father?” a caller asked when the phone rang at Mr. Lai’s childhood home. Six months earlier, the 22-year-old had moved to Chengdu, in southwest China, to become one of the millions of human cogs powering the largest, fastest and most sophisticated manufacturing system on earth. That system has made it possible for Apple and hundreds of other companies to build devices almost as quickly as they can be dreamed up."
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Fast and sophisticated can blow up anywhere. How many have died using these devices when they should have been mindful about where they were going? What kind of a society do we have when public is conspicuously device-centered and no one has looked beyond sprawl and gridlock? The costs are already visible to the seeing eye. Drive on. And in south China, martyrs to the admired legacy of the late Mr. Jobs.
