| View | Upload your ownHey WiSci readers, if you want to take a break from our wall-to-wall Phoenix Lander Mars coverage (and you might not want to), you can take a look at my presentation from the Webvisions conference. The talk was long — about 65 minutes — and so there’s a lot of slides.
The biggest assumption in the talk is that we need to use far less resources than we do now, but that the traditional rhetoric of conservation (i.e. "buy less" and "use less") have been a major failure. Our only hope, then, lies in creating novel interactions with products, environments, and other people. And that’s where the Internet coms in. In many cases, we can reap enormous efficiency gains by moving data (MP3s) instead of creating and moving a thing (a CD) while still getting the experience (listening to an album).
The talk is structure into two main sections. The first covers resources and problems with energy creation and distribution, while the second section shows how the Internet can improve upon and update classic environmental causes and actions like saving the rainforest and picking up litter.
A podcast of the talk should be up soon and I’ll try to post it or even sync it with these slides.
Ok, you can return to hitting refresh for more Mars pictures now.
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