.@caseorganic has outlined before how 50 billion devices is maybe even a conservative estimate for our near future.
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A simple way developers and engineers can act: refuse to push code that prevents repair or forces obsolescence.
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Related thought: lots of folks are considering proof-of-work-based blockchains, which literally waste almost all their energy usage.
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And it's not exactly a small amount of energy usage, either.
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It's enormous & getting bigger. BTC, which is the largest PoW-based bc, is projected to use 14 GW in 2020 (~Denmark's total power usage).
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A good read from IEEE Spectrum last month:https://spectrum.ieee.org/energy/policy/the-ridiculous-amount-of-energy-it-takes-to-run-bitcoin …
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