Our journal article titled "Smart Everything" is now available for download
The Annual Review of Environment and Resources has just released their Volume 38, which contains our latest article, titled “Smart Everything: Will Intelligent Systems Reduce Resource Use? (CLICK ON THE TITLE LINK TO DOWNLOAD A FREE COPY!)”. The article provides a broad look at the progress of distributed mobile computing and communications in transforming economic activity and resource use. It’s a very high quality journal (impact factor = 4.968) and I’m honored to have been commissioned to write this article, in collaboration with my colleagues Scott Matthews of Carnegie Mellon University and Eric Williams of the Rochester Institute of Technology. Please send comments and suggestions for interesting new applications of information technology, as I’m compiling these examples for some upcoming research.
Here’s the abstract:
Until recently, the main environmental concerns associated with information and communication technologies (ICTs) have been their use-phase electricity consumption and the chemicals associated with their manufacture, and the environmental effects of these technologies on other parts of the economy have largely been ignored. With the advent of mobile computing, communication, and sensing devices, these indirect effects have the potential to be much more important than the impacts from the use and manufacturing phases of this equipment. This article summarizes the trends that have propelled modern technological societies into the ultralow-power design space and explores the implications of these trends for the direct and indirect environmental impacts associated with these new technologies. It reviews the literature on environmental effects of information technology (also with an emphasis on low-power systems) and suggests areas for further research.
Koomey, Jonathan G., H. Scott Matthews, and Eric Williams. 2013. “Smart Everything: Will Intelligent Systems Reduce Resource Use?" The Annual Review of Environment and Resources. vol. 38, October. pp. 311-343. [To access the article’s page on the AREE site, go to http://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-environ-021512-110549]
The journal allows readers to download one copy of the article for their own personal use by clicking on the URL that’s embedded in the title of the article referenced above. Here’s the legalese:
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