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TY - GEN
T1 - Regenerative Computing
T2 - De-limiting hope
AU - Mann, Samuel
AU - Bates, Oliver Emile Glaves
AU - Forsyth, Glenys
AU - Osborne, Phil
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - In computing there is a small but growing community who desire to make sense of the role of computing in a world with limits. This community has provided a much needed critical perspective on what has otherwise been computing’s contribution to a worsening world state, or at best a weak sustainability. But, by framing the biophysical and social en- vironment as limited, there is a danger of adopting a negative and overly pessimistic approach with the effect of marginal- ising our message and contribution to computing. Previous attempts to address the tension between a limited world and a positive approach have been foundered on concerns that a techno-utopia is not only unrealisable but efforts to achieve it are exacerbating the problem. In this paper we explore the potential for an explicitly positive approach to computing within limits research: regenerative computing. We describe what regenerative computing within limits might look like and suggest a way forward. We expect this new approach to transform the computing and sustainability discourse, and empower the computing within limits community to become ambassadors of hope and regenerative sustainability.
AB - In computing there is a small but growing community who desire to make sense of the role of computing in a world with limits. This community has provided a much needed critical perspective on what has otherwise been computing’s contribution to a worsening world state, or at best a weak sustainability. But, by framing the biophysical and social en- vironment as limited, there is a danger of adopting a negative and overly pessimistic approach with the effect of marginal- ising our message and contribution to computing. Previous attempts to address the tension between a limited world and a positive approach have been foundered on concerns that a techno-utopia is not only unrealisable but efforts to achieve it are exacerbating the problem. In this paper we explore the potential for an explicitly positive approach to computing within limits research: regenerative computing. We describe what regenerative computing within limits might look like and suggest a way forward. We expect this new approach to transform the computing and sustainability discourse, and empower the computing within limits community to become ambassadors of hope and regenerative sustainability.
KW - designing for hope
KW - positivist
KW - sustainability
KW - transformation
KW - regenerative computing
U2 - 10.1145/3232617.3232618
DO - 10.1145/3232617.3232618
M3 - Conference contribution/Paper
SN - 9781450365758
BT - LIMITS '18 Proceedings of the 2018 Workshop on Computing within Limits
PB - ACM
CY - New York
ER -