"Digitalization is unlikely to be the environmental silver bullet it is sometimes claimed to be. On the contrary, the way digitalization changes society, making it ever faster, more connected, and allowing us unprecedented levels of efficiency might in fact lead to a backfire."
Digital Rebound – Why Digitalization Will Not Redeem Us Our Environmental Sins
Devine Lu Linvega
in reply to Wim🧮 • • •Wim🧮
in reply to Devine Lu Linvega • • •@neauoire I hadn't heard that, but I found a reference:
"[In "Walden", Thoreau] comments that, if someone wants to travel 48 km to visit the countryside, it would be faster to walk than to opt for a locomotive."
"This was not because the speed of the train when moving was slower, but because Thoreau proposed that travel time is considered to be that spent on work to pay the costs of the ticket, which, at the time, would be equivalent to almost a day's salary."
https://www.archdaily.com/980313/why-walking-can-be-faster-than-driving
Why Walking Can Be Faster Than Driving
Cristiano Scarpelli (ArchDaily)Devine Lu Linvega
in reply to Wim🧮 • • •river needs jungle, i'm afraid
in reply to Wim🧮 • • •Devine Lu Linvega
in reply to river needs jungle, i'm afraid • • •I think that's usually called the iron triangle, I forget where that came from.
edit: Oh, that comes from Orlov I think.
https://www.philipbrewer.net/2011/08/22/dmitry-orlov-and-the-iron-triangle-of-house-car-job/
https://web.archive.org/web/20120127035534/http://transitionvoice.com/2011/08/no-shirt-no-shoes-no-problem-interview-dmitry-orlov/