Why Is the Digital Future Responsible?
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Romuald Priol argues that digital services are increasingly wasteful and ethically problematic—power-hungry, resource-intensive, promoting hardware churn and accessibility gaps—and thus fail to help solve planetary challenges. He presents the problem of 'obesiciels' and calls for making digital technology responsible by adopting eco-design, low-tech practices, efficiency, sobriety, accessibility and stronger ethics so services remain usable and sustainable over the next 20 years.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Ecological impact of digital
- 1:04Personal ecology commitment
- 2:10Digital services defined
- 2:54Major digital issues
- 10:56Digital economic and social problems
- 14:06Ethical and security issues
- 17:35Digital obesity consequences
- 22:13Performance versus sobriety
- 29:33Networks and cloud impact
- 33:45Solutions for responsible digital
- 40:03Conclusion
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