ENGIOSNot broken. Just abandoned.
Each year:
• ~1.7B smartphones discarded
• ~300–400M PCs retired
• millions of servers replaced
And here’s the uncomfortable truth:
Hardware isn’t being replaced because it’s broken.
It’s being replaced because software demands it.
Extend device life by just 1 year → ~20% less e-waste.
The problem isn’t hardware. It’s software.
What if software adapted to hardware?
Flounder