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This is a collection of random thoughts regarding the application of permacultural ideas to the computer world. See also: Permacomputing update 2021 Some have tried to connect these worlds before (WikiWikiWeb's Permaculture article; Kent Beck's short-lived idea of Permaprogramming), but these have mostly concentrated on enhancing software engineering practices with some ideas from gardening. I am more interested in the aspect of cultural and ecological permanence. That is, how to give computers a meaningful and sustainable place in a human civilization that has a meaningful and sustainable place in the planetary biosphere. Over the last few hundred years of human civilization, there has been a dramatic increase in the consumption of artificially produced energy. In the overarching story, this is often equated with "progress". In the computer world, this phenomenon gets multiplied by itself: "progress" facilitates ever greater densities of data storage and digital logic, thus dramatical

Permacomputing | viznut Permacomputing This is a collection of random thoughts regarding the application of permacultural ideas to the computer world. See also: Permacomputing update 2021 Some have tried to connect these worlds before ( WikiWikiWeb's Permaculture article ; Kent Beck 's short-lived idea of Permaprogramming ), but these have mostly concentrated on enhancing software engineering practices with some ideas from gardening. I am more interested in the aspect of cultural and ecological permanence. That is, how to give computers a meaningful and sustainable place in a human civilizatio

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