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Cover: 9781915590237 | The Dark Cloud (Export Edition) | Guillaume Pitron | Taschenbuch
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The Dark Cloud (Export Edition)
Taschenbuch von Guillaume Pitron
Sprache: Englisch

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A gripping new investigation into the underbelly of digital technology,which reveals not only how costly the virtual world is, but how damaging it isto the environment.Asimple 'like' sent from our smartphones mobilises will soon constitute thelargest infrastructure built by man. This small notification, crossing theseven operating layers of the Internet, travels around the world, usingsubmarine cables, telephone antennas, and data centres, going as far as theArctic Circle.Itturns out that the 'dematerialised' digital world, essential forcommunicating, working, and consuming, is much more tangible than we wouldlike to believe. Today, it absorbs 10 per cent of the world's electricity andrepresents nearly 4 per cent of the planet's carbon dioxide emissions. We arestruggling to understand these impacts, as they are obscured to us in themirage of 'the cloud'. Translated by Bianca Jacobsohn
A gripping new investigation into the underbelly of digital technology,which reveals not only how costly the virtual world is, but how damaging it isto the environment.Asimple 'like' sent from our smartphones mobilises will soon constitute thelargest infrastructure built by man. This small notification, crossing theseven operating layers of the Internet, travels around the world, usingsubmarine cables, telephone antennas, and data centres, going as far as theArctic Circle.Itturns out that the 'dematerialised' digital world, essential forcommunicating, working, and consuming, is much more tangible than we wouldlike to believe. Today, it absorbs 10 per cent of the world's electricity andrepresents nearly 4 per cent of the planet's carbon dioxide emissions. We arestruggling to understand these impacts, as they are obscured to us in themirage of 'the cloud'. Translated by Bianca Jacobsohn
Über den Autor

Guillaume Pitron, born in 1980, is a French award-winning journalist and documentary-maker for France's leading television channels. His work focuses on commodities and on the economic, political, and environmental issues associated with their use. The Rare Metals War, his first book, sold 80,000 copies in France and has been translated into ten languages. Guillaume Pitron holds a master's degree in international law from the University of Georgetown (Washington, DC), and is a TEDx speaker. More information at [...]

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Erscheinungsjahr: 2023
Fachbereich: Datenkommunikation, Netze & Mailboxen
Genre: Importe, Informatik
Rubrik: Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9781915590237
ISBN-10: 191559023X
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Pitron, Guillaume
Hersteller: Scribe Publications
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 151 x 232 x 24 mm
Von/Mit: Guillaume Pitron
Erscheinungsdatum: 14.09.2023
Gewicht: 0,38 kg
Artikel-ID: 126939114
Über den Autor

Guillaume Pitron, born in 1980, is a French award-winning journalist and documentary-maker for France's leading television channels. His work focuses on commodities and on the economic, political, and environmental issues associated with their use. The Rare Metals War, his first book, sold 80,000 copies in France and has been translated into ten languages. Guillaume Pitron holds a master's degree in international law from the University of Georgetown (Washington, DC), and is a TEDx speaker. More information at [...]

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2023
Fachbereich: Datenkommunikation, Netze & Mailboxen
Genre: Importe, Informatik
Rubrik: Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9781915590237
ISBN-10: 191559023X
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Pitron, Guillaume
Hersteller: Scribe Publications
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 151 x 232 x 24 mm
Von/Mit: Guillaume Pitron
Erscheinungsdatum: 14.09.2023
Gewicht: 0,38 kg
Artikel-ID: 126939114
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