Germany's renowned bread culture generates significant waste, with households discarding nearly 10 kilograms per person annually. Berlin bakeries and food rescue apps like Too Good To Go redistribute unsold bread, while some is converted to biogas, but experts emphasize that prevention through better production planning and storage is more effective than rescue efforts alone.
Tech hype systematically wastes society's resources by recycling failed past predictions to create speculative bubbles, extracting short-term profits while leaving infrastructure ruins and abandoned projects. Examples include metaverse campuses with minimal users, bankrupt bionic implant companies, and underutilized data centers, revealing hype as a cycle of anticipation, simulation, and amnesia rather than genuine technological progress.