MAPPED: Where Do Computers Come From?

*See map below*

It's complicated. With steel from Russia and copper from Chile, glass from Korea and lithium from Zimbabwe, the lineup of your laptop's sources reads like roll-call at the UN .

The map below, created by leo on SourceMap show how the parts and pieces that make up your laptop come from just about everywhere.

A PC Mag article, "What's Inside Your Laptop" investigated the global origins of our PCs, reporting:

The big picture is one of a strikingly global production chain. This is the story of how quartz becomes a computer, and it's a story that--for the typical notebook computer--stretches across nearly every continent, dozens of countries, and literally hundreds of different companies.

Check out the map below:

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Comments

[PlayTOE]

Notice that all the notebook parts are going to China.

The technological center of the world is .. no longer in the USA

[MicheleCA]

OT but seems similar. New research available on cell phone radiation at ewg.org.

There's an interactive guide to enable you to look up your phone.

Lists of the best & worst offenders. I'd like to have similar information regarding my computer.

http://www.ewg.org/cellphoneradiation/Get-a-Safer-Phone