Posts tagged physical substrate

“Software is written by haunted meat to run through boxes of poisoned sand and enchanted crystals.”

–Situated Systems

Relating a Google search return to an equivalent expenditure of fossil fuels, or the fluctuation of pixels across a screen with the exploited labour of rural migrant workers in Shenzen, or topsoil loss in Inner Mongolia, is as remote and unattainable for the majority of users as is an understanding of the technical functionality of the devices themselves

http://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/human-resolution