next yesterday's answers
I had one of those days when my smartphone became not so smart perhaps a fickfone, so back to factory settings and great relief that everything on it is saved to Google cloud. It's still getting thousands of photos back, but I can once again do everything I can do on a conventional phone and nearly everything I can do on a conventional computer.
While on one side of the ITC coin, I just wouldn't have the time to write these blog posts without a smartphone, the other side of the ITC coin is the damage phone computers and TVs are doing.
Usually the issues I read about are the damage to us human beings, particularly screen use, eyesight, cognitive ability, memory loss in the older generation and stress related mental health issues in the younger generation.
This time it's the environment, link to one of the many articles highlighting the carbon cost of ITC.
As far as I can see ITC is producing about 2% of the world's carbon with this expected to rise to 8% by 2030 and a very large proportion of this is due to cloud storage and the associated data transfer.
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