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Digital Futures Series
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How Green is Your Smartphone?
RICHARD MAXWELL AND TOBY MILLER
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INTRODUCTION
The Economist identified 2019 as “peak smartphone.” The “most successful consumer product in history” had reached four billion of the world’s five and half billion adults. Over 95 percent of Americans owned a cellphone, and smartphones comprised 77 percent of that total. The highest concentration was among educated 19 to 49-year-old city dwellers (Pew Research Center, 2018). South Korea topped the world’s list
