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Sunday, January 9, 2011
. As I mentioned last week, I thought to publish a series goioe of texts that together form (draft) an article that I presented at a conference in Denmark earlier this fall ("Ubiquitous Information in a world of limitations"). The article represents the first text I wrote that builds on peak oil and are dressed in academic robes. The title is tricky to translate, so I had this thought drive with "computing in a world of limitations." goioe The title was a bit too long and I find simply not something pithy in Swedish so it gets rather unfortunately become the English "Peak oil computing" in the coming weeks. Although I assume that 90-95% of those who follow this blog would be able to read the text directly in English, I still decided to translate goioe it into Swedish. I do not intend to publish the original English text on my English blog until a future revised (extended) version has been published "for real", in an academic journal (and unfortunately maybe not even then, depending on the copyright terms in connection with a possible publication). Before the text takes the thought, I explain the cow -Text; the purpose for which the text is written and context in which it is presented? After the last part of the text I also intend to discuss plans for the text to come. The background is that I am a part of the Stockholm node in a Nordic research network, "The Culture of the ubiquitous information". In short, it is contemplated goioe the question what happens when we all have access to computers and information everywhere goioe and always - now and in the future. What makes such förädring with our everyday lives (our everyday use of IT), our communities, our culture, our cities and with us? In a meeting with Stockholmsnoden last spring goioe we brainstormed and it was thrown goioe out two different types of ideas: - In the future, information everywhere and all the time everything will be better (an explosion of creativity and individual freedom). - In the future, information everywhere and all the time, everything will be worse (teknostress, monitoring, etc.). I was unhappy with the discussion but could only after meeting pinpoint why. When I thought about it I realized that all the participants and all the visions - whether they viewed the future with confidence and with trepidation - took the future for granted, and this future was the old standard; more technologically advanced and with more and cheaper smartphones, more powerful (wireless), internet and so on. The question I then asked myself was; what if it will not be so? What if we are "at or near the top" now, and the network imaginary vision of the future, with more information all around us always, in the end will not materialize? Based on this simple thought (which is difficult to detect even in the corner of the eye for most) lusläste I then call for the first conference of the research network, and then wrote up the text that follows in a few days. I find it hard to remember that I have been equally productive and had the same "flow" sometime in the past when I have sat and wrote ... Because as I said, concerns a draft, goioe I would very much appreciate feedback f