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Product Ethics

Roman Pichler

of global carbon emissions by 2025 and 14% by 2040; The ICT industry could use 20% of all electricity and produce 5.5% Even though your product may be digital, it still consumes energy to be developed and hosted. In a talk at QCon London 2019 , Jason Box and Paul Johnston shared the following estimates: IoT products will cause 3.5%

Digital 101
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Product Ethics

Roman Pichler

of global carbon emissions by 2025 and 14% by 2040; The ICT industry could use 20% of all electricity and produce 5.5% Even though your product may be digital, it still consumes energy to be developed and hosted. In a talk at QCon London 2019 , Jason Box and Paul Johnston shared the following estimates: IoT products will cause 3.5%

Digital 101
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Future economy: personal and corporate strategies for the age of AI, climate crisis, and aging…

Analysts Corner

Jrgen Randers, an economist and author of 2052: A Global Forecast for the Next Forty Years , made a significant misjudgment regarding the global population growth forecast: he predicted that the global population would peak at around 8 billion people by 2040, while it has already reached that level and continues to rise.