Miguel Afonso Caetano on Nostr: RT @libshipwreck When I teach the history of computing, the topic that always gets ...
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When I teach the history of computing, the topic that always gets the most “woah!” reactions from students is when I talk about the materiality/energy needs of computing technologies.
Our ethereal phrases (“the cloud”) hide computing’s material reality:
https://www.theverge.com/24211177/ai-climate-crisis-energy-use-microsoft-openai-chatgpt-google-gemini-decoder-podcast
When I teach the history of computing, the topic that always gets the most “woah!” reactions from students is when I talk about the materiality/energy needs of computing technologies.
Our ethereal phrases (“the cloud”) hide computing’s material reality:
https://www.theverge.com/24211177/ai-climate-crisis-energy-use-microsoft-openai-chatgpt-google-gemini-decoder-podcast