In the lead-up to AZURE’s Human/Nature conference — taking place in Toronto on October 24-25 — where Tommaso Bitossi is a keynote speaker, he talked with Elizabeth Pagliacolo about “sufficiency before efficiency” and four recent Transsolar projects.
“The core meaning of ‘sufficiency before efficiency’ is looking at how efficiency, in the past, has failed us. In other words, our computers now are much more efficient than in 1995. However, now we have two laptops per person, one iPad, one smartphone, etc. So… our carbon emissions didn’t change. Perhaps they increased! Or, our servers are now cooled very efficiently, but, with the advent of AI, we are exponentially increasing our needed for data storage and computational power. Again, did efficiency save us?"
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