Christoph Reuss wrote:
...and the fast-food itself has made even longer journeys...
The orders at least don't burn that much fossil fuel...
I was struck by this article. Apparently there is at most a very
tenuous connection between placing one's order at McD and
having that order filled [sort of like,
mutatis mutandis, of course, the NYC 911 operators
telling people in the WTC what to do on 911, when they -- the operators --
had no sensory connection to the situation they were
telling persons what to do to in?].
On the other hand, the part about Home Depot, where a remote
advisor would help the customer find things seemed to me
more plausible, esp if the store is equipped with a lot of cameras,
and probably even each shopping cart having a camera.
But one of the most interesting things about the McD order
center was that they would save time by the order-taker immediately
switching from taking the order from a person at one site to
taking an order from a person at a different site instead of waiting 10
seconds for
the next person to become active at the first site. If technological
progress is largely characterizable as de-materialization (using ever
less "material" to achieve a given result), this seems a bit of a
"new twist". Consciousness, as has been observed from Heraciltus to
Husserl et al. is "everywhere and nowhere", from "transcentental
subjectivity" to minimum-wage worker....
\brad mccormick
http://www.commondreams.org/news2006/0406-05.htm
Greenpeace Investigation Links Fast Food Giants to Amazon Destruction
Campaign launched to hold McDonald's accountable
LONDON - April 6 - Greenpeace today exposed the role played by
McDonald's in the destruction of the Amazon rainforest. (1)
As part of a new campaign to tackle the latest threat to the Amazon,
Greenpeace has completed a year-long undercover investigation into the
global trade in Amazon soya. The findings are today published in a new
report, Eating up the Amazon (2). Using satellite images, aerial
surveillance, previously unreleased government documents and
on-the-ground monitoring, Greenpeace traced soya from criminal
rainforest destruction to McDonald's restaurants and to supermarkets
across Europe.
...
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