Reflective Blogging Assignment #4

Consider the impact of personal networking devices, in terms of the environment.  What do you think are the biggest areas of immediate impact?  How about long term impact?

The topic of personal networking devices effect on our environment is a fairly controversial topic for a few reasons.  First, the signals produced to connect to the internet makes an unnatural signal that might hurt our environment over time.  But another aspect is the materials that these devices are being made from.  There are currently some devices being made that are made from renewable products, however when comparing this to the total number of devices being made, it is an extremely small percentage.  
     
When someone wants to buy a phone, most likely they want the best phone for their money.  Of the people I know, very few people will want to buy the product that is made from renewable products because it is better for the environment.  This simply may be one of the biggest problems, is that people don't really care enough to make an impact.  So to benefit our society and environment, I think one of the only ways this can be done if most of the phones that are being made are from recyclable products.  Imagine if Apple made the next iPhone out of recyclable materials, and it didn't degrade the phone.  This would be a huge step and im sure many customers would buy the phone.  
In the short term, it is ultimately up to the companies that own the devices to decide to start making these products out of renewable materials.  Until this is done, there isn't too much we as customers can do.  It would be nice to see this happen in the future, but unfortunately I don't really see this happening in the next few years.