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The BttT presentation was about using computing to design a better system to learn to identify plants. One of its goals was to become "self-obliviating technology", meaning that the more you use it, the *less* you need it and the less you depend on it. In this case: the more you learn, the less you need the system.
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Hart of the Wud
@vanderZwan That's a good point. The most "perma" computing is the kind that does not use an industrially-made computer at all. |
"Self-obliviating technology" is apparently an established concept, but we hadn't heard of it before.
It probably only applies to a small niche of problems, and of course current economic systems fear the spectre of degrowth, but even so we all kind of felt... I dunno... relieved? after that talk. It showed a practical example of how to make computing sustainable: by solving problems with it in such a way that we can get rid of it altogether in the long term.