Green ICT: History, Agenda, and Challenges Ahead
Mohammad Dastbaz Leeds Beckett University, Leeds, UK
Keywords
Industrial revolution
Information communications technologies
Internet
Integrated circuit
Sustainable ICT
Big data
Cloud computing
Introduction
The dawn of the Industrial Revolution and the growth of machine-based industries changed the face of our planet for good. While Charles Dickens darkly depicted poverty, disease-ridden cities, and squalid living conditions in Great Expectations, the replacement of the farming/cottage-type production industry with large factories changed Britain's skylines in the 18th century and signaled the beginnings of monumental change and innovation in addition to immense scientific discoveries. ...
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