An interesting overview here of how all of our recycling gets processed.
It’s interesting to think how recycling has evolved over the last few decades, and it appears like the technology to sort and process our recyclables has evolved also. I think this is another story of machines doing a better job of mundane tasks (such as sorting garbage) than humans can do – freeing us up to do (hopefully) more productive things.
Interesting data point here from w3techs.com on which Content Management Systems are behind internet websites:
WordPress is a free open source CMS – no wonder its eating market share from custom developed websites. It has a huge ecosystem of prebuilt plugins, and if you can’t find the plugin you want, you could easily find someone to build you one.
WordPress has thousands of free and low-cost themes, so you no long need to have a designer custom design a site – you can get a nice looking, pre-packaged design for free.
I guess the moral of the story is don’t let your children grow up to be website builders or designers – I am not sure that’s where the future is. The future appears to be in becoming an expert at knowing how to integrate existing software and themes, or building components and themes for use by all.
The w3tech site has all sorts of interesting data about the most popular technology behind websites – worth a browse at http://w3techs.com/.