[Year 12 IT Apps] PostCarbon ICT

[Jim Maunder]

It's now Friday arvo, so I can have a go at this puzzle.

Firstly, whatever anyone predicts for the future is likely to be 
wrong. For instance, mid 20th Century science fiction invented all 
sorts of futures and gadgets - from galaxy-wide civilization to 
post-apocalypse anarchy, but I can't recall any that predicted the 
internet, and not many predicted the personal computer as we know it. 
The closest Arthur C. Clark got was a gadget not unlike a HP hand 
held calculator (in 'Imperial Earth', 1975).

I can imagine a similar discussion to this going on in medieval 
Europe about what will happen when they run out of trees to make 
charcoal for the iron smelters.

Secondly, because of the above I'm not going to say anything more, 
except that linear thinking like this article is never going to work.

I'll eat my chips while they are still warm.

rgds
Jim

At 07:03 PM 12/06/2008, you wrote:
> > Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 21:02:30 -0700 (PDT)
> > From: h w <misterwarwick at yahoo.com>
> > To: list at fibreculture.org
>
>I recently spoke at the first International Peak Oil, Climate Change and
>Sustainability Conference a few weeks ago in Grand Rapids, MI, USA.
>
>My topic? PostCarbon ICT.
>
>It points DIRECTLY at some major issues going on, and it is a focus of my
>present research.
>
>Basically, Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is, in its
>present configuration, completely dependent on fossil fuels. IF this
>configuration is not changed to one more coherent to the new realities,
>there will be no PostCarbon ICT, period.

etc etc



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