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Easterling Broadband Chapter Quote:   Africa comprises 20 percent of the world’s land mass and contains 12 percent of its population. But it accounts for only 2 percent of the world’s telecommunications.      Quote:   The  cell phone, like the new elevator, is a powerful multiplier that can be placed in a meaningful interplay  with all of the other active forms in the broadband network to alter the design of the city, village,  road, school, and market. Page 1-2 Summary: Thousands of miles of submarine cable for telegraph, internet, and fiber-optic networks have been laid on the ocean floor. It took only thirty years for British cable-laying firms to string the globe of telegraph cable in the nineteenth century, and a little more than a decade for much of the world to be wired to fiber-optic cable from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. With the extensive process that undergoes in modernization of a countries broadband development is financially mo...

 In today’s world, buildings are hugely responsible for emitting most of the world’s pollution into its atmosphere. Since are consistent modernization, they have been major emitters of other non-CO2 greenhouse gas emissions such as halocarbons. It is said, at this rate, rapidly industrializing countries will surpass emission levels from buildings in developed countries. Building energy use is not the only form of emissions released into our atmosphere. About 10% - 20% of energy consumed is for materials manufacturing, transportation, construction, maintenance, renovation, and demolition. Since we have peaked into an era of construction and modernization, majority of what will be standing in our cities by 2050 would have already been built by our society. therefore, the strategy now to improve our living conditions, is to encourage building owners to adapt and retrofit their existing buildings to optimize emission reduction. This is something consistently being pushed upon in deve...

Quote: Do we not think we do work because we do not know its nature, or do we not know its nature because we do not think we do it. Quote: Architecture is not a career; it is a calling. The creativity within architecture stems from the designers it houses, as Peggy mentions greatly, Architecture is not a career, it is a calling. Architects make and construct projects that matter to the world. Peggy discusses an important subject as to why architects and what they provide, should not be labeled as service work. As many other professionals in the world, such as doctors and lawyers, they get paid based off their fees, Architects get paid to create designs, not commodities. Work-aphasia within architecture is a well-known aspect within the field of architecture. It may result as the outcome from the tremendous dedication to a design that stems from the 70-hour work weeks at some offices. Work-aphasia is not financially rewarding (low starting salary within the profession), not prac...

Quote: The reconquest of a degree of creative autonomy I one particular domain encourages conquests in other domains – the catalyst for a gradual reforging and renewal of humanity’s confidence in itself starting at the most miniscule level. Page 27 – 28 Summary: The earth is undergoing a period which is being described as an intense techno scientific transformation. If no immediate solution is found for this major issue, the continuation of our existence on this planet will cease to exist. Humans will be reduced to our most primitive and survival instincts, releasing our meanest forms of expressions in relationships. Others will lose all asperity, and tourism will become just become redundant journeys to areas of nothingness. Most of all, political groups are aware but blind to the implications of all these issues. Industrial pollution, a major problem on this planet, is one of the main issues while currently living on this planet. It is a techno-scientific mutation of considerable de...