If you're like me, or Mike Daisey, the narrator of this disturbing tale, you'd assumed that our iPhones, Kindles, and Xboxes were all produced on some futuristic production line, with robots taking turns sautering together pieces and parts to create a sleek, high-tech product. However, Daisey chose to explore exactly where our stuff comes from by actually traveling to China- and that's were he uncovered a city immersed in a cloud of techno-waste, where pre-teen workers work twenty-hour shifts and unionizing is an unspoken sin.
A link to the story, complete with a transcript, if you prefer to read it:
