Digital Clocks

Digital Clocks have a very generic footprint and machining process that most products have. For example most of the components are plastics or mined metals like tin and copper. What it should be know is that these clocks’ materials are typically mined then brought to a processing plant to be distributed to a refinery then to a factory. In both the factories and the refineries there is a great amount of human workers making a very minimal wage. Most of these factories are going to be housed in countries like China where labor is cheap. After the thousands of clocks are produced they are then brought over seas through boat, or plane to be brought to distribution centers which then have cars to deliver the goods to retail stores and etc. The workers at those locations are also getting paid pretty minimally while the manufacturing is making a lot of money on cheap labor and leaving a massive carbon foot print for a cheap 5 dollar clock.

Benefits to digital clocks are going to be our ability to keep track of time, and ensure that people know exactly where and what they plan on doing based off of this calculation. Typical draw backs to these clocks are their need for batteries, to be wired up, and they just waste away in a lot of public dumb when broken. The materials inside of these clocks do not break down quickly over time as most of them are made heavily of plastic and can’t be recycled other than for the little bits of copper and tin within side of the circuitry.

As a community and a world with order we need to have a track of time as it helps regulate and control the actions or the events of a mass of people. For example flights need to have times, classes need to have times, and work schedules have to have times so people don’t just show up whenever they want and ask to go somewhere or do something. There is an issue with how time runs our society and how clocks ruin a lot of the mentality behind it. Creativeness and thoughtfulness gets thrown out the window when a timer is placed on someone, unless its optimizing a task. Remember as a child, you’d be playing outside and your mother called you in while you were about to defeat the imaginary dragon. That imagination is destroyed when placing a timer because the child knows they’d have to go inside and they’d have never explored that mythical world of dragons. The same goes for people creating a new project, they do it on their free time because they can be free as they want to be to create things, and as a society I think that clocks giving someone a deadline to be creative, is just like giving a gunman a regular gun with Nerf bullets- it renders them useless. It would be nice to have society have regulations or rewards for those working on something that takes time and creativity. I feel like schools should remove the clocks in the classrooms as it causes a mental distraction to the students, as they will tend to wait for the bell to ring than listen to the teacher.

Resources that were looked at:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfs8CY3PTCQ

Is Technology Killing Creativity?

https://www.hunker.com/13412348/modern-materials-used-in-clocks