Collapse Informatics
09/04/24 14:17
My chapter “Collapse Informatics and the Environmental Impact of Information and Communication Technologies” is published in The Routledge Handbook of Ecomedia Studies, ed. Alenda Chang, Kiu-Wai Chu, Adrian Ivakhiv, Antonio Lopez, Stephen Rust, and Miriam Tola.
Focusing on the important subcategory of ICT engineering research in sustainability, I argue that ICT’s growth is unsustainable, even given the vaunted efficiency of the technologies, especially as it expands to developing countries. Reviewing some proposed best practices for making ICT use sustainable, I suggest that the movements of slow computing and collapse informatics offer a model for learning to live with decreased expectations. On Selected Writings page
