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        Date: 2024-05-08 05:39:52+00:00
        From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk>
        Subject: smart machines and climate change

Reading Stefano Mancuso's The Nation of Plants: A radical manifesto for
humans (2021)*, I'd like to think that the potential of smart machines
and their massive data centres to address the problem of climate change
outweighs the environmental cost of developing and running them. I'd
very much appreciate references to thoughtful literature on this
potential and to considerations of the (im)balance of benefits against
that cost.

Yours,
WM
----
*Translated by Gregory Conti from La nazione della plante (Roma: Editori
Laterza, 2019).

--
Willard McCarty,
Professor emeritus, King's College London;
Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews;  Humanist
www.mccarty.org.uk


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