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We're looking at individual and collective approaches, because a sustainable future requires us all to do our part, and because we also need systemic change. It is also not about vilifying people or behaviors, but rather a genuine effort to figure out how to do better, and what that even means.
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Welcome to the Museum of the Fossilized Internet. This museum was founded in 2050 to commemorate two decades of a fossil-free internet and to invite museum's visitors to experience what the coal and oil-powered internet of 2020 was like. Gasp at the horrors of surveillance capitalism. Nod knowingly at the plague of spam. Be baffled at the size of AI training data and lament the binge culture of video streaming.
== Endless Scrolling: The computer mouse Dark Patterns == ''Computer mouse.'' Modeling foam and bell jar. Dark patterns in design entice us to spend more and more time using digital products. We scroll, and we scroll, and we scroll, and the content don't stop. Our digital attention crisis is intertwined with the climate crisis. == Spam: Spam Cans ==== Filesharing ==''Spam cans.'' Paper and gold foil. Unsolicited email, or spam, is more than a nuance online. In a 2009 report, McAfee estimated 62tn spam messages were sent globally, and that the greenhouse gases involved in providing enough electricity to generate, send and then delete this unwanted traffic was the same as the emissions from 3.1m cars. == Surveillance Capitalism and Legacy Code: == ''Books of code.'' Paper. An homage to the artist Joana Moll's "The Hidden Life of an Amazon User books ==" representing the 1,307 different requests to all sort of scripts and documents, totaling 8,724 A4 pages worth of printed code, adding up to 87.33MB of information, required for one user to order Jeff Bezos' book on Amazon. The amount of energy needed to load each of the twelve web interfaces, along with each one’s endless fragments of code, was approximately 30Kwh. == Streaming: Netflix Socks == ''Netflix socks and couch.'' Textiles and wood. Internet users in the year 2020 were heavy media streamers. Online video streaming accounted for ___ % of internet usage. The experience of binge watching videos was so prevalent that Netflix published a tutorial for connected socks that would detect when the wearer fell asleep on the couch and would stop the streaming. YouTube's emissions were estimated to exceed those of a city the size of Glasgow.
== Internet of Things: Roomba and Amazon Echo==
== Bitcoin Mining Rig ==
== Big data and AI: Training AI==
== Filesharing ==
Coming soon
== Ad tech ==
Coming soon
== Gift shop?==
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Through discussion and reflection, we hope these scenarios may expose where there is consensus as well as disagreement among participants and then later help refine a set of goals we would actually want to work towards.
'''A future where…'''
# Everyone recognizes that there is a climate emergency and takes action. While we still may feel fear, indifference, anger, confusion and other strong emotions because of the climate emergency, we are not paralyzed.
# All citizens participate in a global community service program to learn about and implement sustainable practices.
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= Futures Moodboard =
We're making a moodboard of what inspires us for a more sustainable future. Art, text, found objects, things that we say "YES!" to.
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= 1000 Ideas =
= About =
* Who's behind this project. * How to make this exhibition. Templates : Cathleen Berger, Michelle Thorne, Gabi Ivens, Joana Moll, Chris Adams, and tutorials we usedthe Mozilla environment group. * What we learned. Reflections and writing. Including our in-person study group, [[Projects/Micro_Climates/CAT_Skills| CAT Skills]]. * ''Coming soon:'' How to make this exhibition. Templates and tutorials we used. More resources and how to get involved.
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