Posthuman Blues

Cellphone recycling bins at Tokyo convenience stores

Since 1998, Japan's wireless providers have been recycling unwanted phones in their own stores for customers who switch models or cancel their contracts. In recent years, however, more and more customers are waiting to recycle their old handsets, as phones have grown more sophisticated and hold greater amounts of important data that users need to access after switching models.

The question you should be asking yourself: could anyone in, say, 1985 possibly have predicted this?