permacomputing

Software is in decline, and key knowledge is being lost because new engineers are not interacting with how the fundamentals work.

One thread that follows civilization-collapse is the loss of knowledge. The roman aqueducts being an often cited example.

Therefore we need a practice of fostering regeneration in computing. An idea taken from agriculture’s approach, permaculture.

Some core ideas that might prevent a collapse in computing are:

• low power
• re-purpose old devices
• keep-software-small
• focus-on-flexible-skills
• work in public (about)
• avoid centralisation

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• eink phones as compute