Sustainability in a Buzzing Tech World: Balancing Progress and Responsibility
summary
The talk lays out concrete claims and tools: ICT now causes roughly 2–7% of global emissions and could hit 13% by 2030, training GPT‑3 produces 550 tons CO2 and uses 3.5 million liters of water, Bitcoin mining equals about 0.19% (comparable to Greece), and Kenyan moderators earn ~$2/hour. Practical responses include Osso VR surgical training, a Fraunhofer skin‑cancer app, an Indian AI for fertilizer optimization, and toolkits like Sustain by AlgorithmWatch, the sustainable business model canvas, and web sustainability guidelines.
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chapters (23)
- 0:00Sustainability in Tech
- 1:38Personal sustainability journey
- 3:23UN SDGs explained
- 4:49Carbon footprint of digital tech
- 6:16Bitcoin mining impact
- 7:00AI energy and water costs
- 8:50AI biases and inequalities
- 10:59Ethical AI concerns
- 11:41VR questionable uses
- 13:48Reduce footprint increase handprint
- 15:12VR in education
- 15:55AI in medical diagnostics
- 16:35AI for sustainable farming
- 17:18Building sustainable products
- 18:01Sustainable business model
- 18:44Designing for non-users
- 19:48Inclusive innovation playbook
- 20:09Sustainable AI guidelines
- 21:13Web sustainability guidelines
- 21:57Web sustainability manifesto
- 22:40Personal sustainable work framework
- 24:27Further learning recs
- 26:56Q&A
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