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Isabel Richards
@1sabelR@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

Delighted to see Widdicombe’s (NCM Senior Curator) new conversation piece on the #environmental impacts of #technology systems like #AI and the #telegraph. It draws from our research at the School of #Cybernetics on the telegraph as an important historical system!

https://theconversation.com/from-the-telegraph-to-ai-our-communications-systems-have-always-had-hidden-environmental-costs-263811

The Conversation

From the telegraph to AI, our communications systems have always had hidden environmental costs

The telegraph was hailed for its revolutionary ability to span distance. Now AI is being hailed as a great leap forward. But both came with environmental costs.
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Isabel Richards
@1sabelR@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

Delighted to see Widdicombe’s (NCM Senior Curator) new conversation piece on the #environmental impacts of #technology systems like #AI and the #telegraph. It draws from our research at the School of #Cybernetics on the telegraph as an important historical system!

https://theconversation.com/from-the-telegraph-to-ai-our-communications-systems-have-always-had-hidden-environmental-costs-263811

The Conversation

From the telegraph to AI, our communications systems have always had hidden environmental costs

The telegraph was hailed for its revolutionary ability to span distance. Now AI is being hailed as a great leap forward. But both came with environmental costs.
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