{"id":875,"date":"2026-06-19T13:22:36","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T12:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/sds\/?p=875"},"modified":"2026-06-19T13:22:36","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T12:22:36","slug":"the-impact-of-technology-on-people-and-the-planet-talk-at-ict4s-policy-and-industry-panel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/sds\/the-impact-of-technology-on-people-and-the-planet-talk-at-ict4s-policy-and-industry-panel\/","title":{"rendered":"The Impact of Technology on People and the Planet, talk at ICT4S policy and industry panel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/slideshow\/the-impact-of-technology-on-people-and-the-planet\/288146932\">My recent short keynote talk<\/a> focusing on the systemic effects of a growth of ICT, data centres and AI on energy and material systems (systemic effects, rebounds, growth in e-Waste etc.) and the need to consider these impacts and limit overall growth &#8211; i.e. don&#8217;t adopt expensive techniques at scale that we can&#8217;t sustain or don&#8217;t deliver value to society or environment worthy of the impacts! (<a href=\"https:\/\/conf.researchr.org\/home\/ict4s-2026\">Industry and policy makers day at ICT4S 2026<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My recent short keynote talk focusing on the systemic effects of a growth of ICT, data centres and AI on energy and material systems (systemic effects, rebounds, growth in e-Waste etc.) and the need to consider these impacts and limit overall growth &#8211; i.e. don&#8217;t adopt expensive techniques at scale that we can&#8217;t sustain or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ict","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/sds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/sds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/sds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/sds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/sds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=875"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/sds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":876,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/sds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875\/revisions\/876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/sds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/sds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/sds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}