Title: Digital Rebound – Why Digitalization Will Not Redeem Us Our Environmental Sins
“Digitalization as a technological phenomenon of the 21st century has the power to redeem most environmental sins of our 20th century technology. This seems to be a popular belief shining through many of the optimistic media reports on digitalization. We believe, however, that this mindset is far too simplistic and counterproductive.”
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Description:“Digitalization as a technological phenomenon of the 21st century has the power to redeem most environmental sins of our 20th century technology. This seems to be a popular belief shining through many of the optimistic media reports on digitalization. We believe, however, that this mindset is far too simplistic and counterproductive.”
Subject Area: 1. Natural sciences – Computer and information sciences
Education Level: Higher education
Education Use: Informal education
Author: Coroamă, V. C. & Mattern, F. Date added: 09-04-2022Language: EN
Publisher/Institution: Department of Computer Science ETH Zurich
License type: Public Domain 
Primary User: Teacher
Learning resource type (IEEE LOM): Narrative Text (theory)
Technical type (IEEE LOM): Text – Document
Time to read: 60min
Learning outcomes:
- Have a general understanding of Carbon Footprint
- Evaluate the carbon footprint of devices’ production
- Evaluate the energy consumption of digital services in use
- Recognize the processes that involve the use of digital services and equipment
- Create a list of behaviors to check
DigComp competence area: 4. Safety – 4.4 Protecting the environment
DigComp proficiency level: 4.Tasks, and well defined and non-routine problems
Link: http://www.vs.inf.ethz.ch/publ/papers/CoroamaMattern2019-DigitalRebound.pdf
Key words: “digital rebound”., “Efficiency”, “energy”
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