[NEWS] Three science and technology links: climate change and the US, payphones, Bombardier

[rfmcdonald]

• The Inter Press Service examines how, at the subnational level, American states and cities and other entities are trying to fight against climate change.


• Payphones, it turns out, actually still turn profits. There is some future to this technology yet in our cell phone era. VICE reports.


• The Bombardier vision of its Northern Ireland plant at one supporting Airbus' enterprises is lovely, but only if hard Brexit is somehow averted. Bloomberg reports.

Comments

[dewline]

Profitability aside, pay phones also still have a degree of utility to people like me. So I have a certain degree of continuing resentment of their removal from our malls and office buildings and gas stations.

[ffutures]

What I see in London increasingly is "phone box" replacements that are actually solid blocks with pay phones on one or two sides and a cash machine on one side. The ones I've seen so far don't charge for a money withdrawal, presumably the banks pay them in some way. They often also incorporate an information screen and local street map and a wireless access point.