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Open Days 2011: growth and job creation vs an ageing Europe
The 2011 European Open Days (*) covered a lot of very different topics, from local transportation to health, traffic, smart cities and education. Almost all these talks, however, starting from the plenary opening session had the same implicit basis, always given for granted without the smallest amount of doubt:
Is there a place for computers and digital communications in degrowth?, part 2
(this is the second part of the translation, with some links updated, of an article I wrote in June 2007 on this topic. The first part is here). Are computers limitable? The concept that you should use a tool only if you can “limit” it, that is if you can foresee and limit its potential damage by defining and regulating in advance how it can or should be used, creates more problems.
Is there a place for computers and digital communications in degrowth?
(this is the translation, with some links updated, of an article I wrote in June 2007 for Rivista Italiana della Decrescita (Italian Degrowth Magazine). Since then, I’ve written and spoken more on the same topic, here and elsewhere.