CityU GE 1315

City University of Hong Kong
GE1315 - How Do You Turn Sand on a Beach into a Trillion Dollars? - 如何點沙成金：海灘沙礫 = 萬億美元？

How could you turn sand into modern tech products (Apple, Wii, flat screen TV), including the once unimaginable (Facebook, Ebay)? Why do tech products get better but cheaper? How do the tech products affect the way we live and relate today? How can tech wastes and bi-products destroy communities and what can be done by laws? These questions will be addressed in this course through a series of lect  ...