Author: Mark K. Smith

Are you thinking about sustainability in AI?

Not a day goes by without a company, charity, government or some other gas-guzzling, forest-burning, ocean-destroying organisation making a grand claim about net-zero, carbon-neutral or otherwise pledging to single-handedly save the planet by twenty-whenever. The threat of irreversible climate change...

How to improve sustainability in AI to benefit businesses and the environment

Images of wildfires, hurricanes and droughts blaring from every news channel and social feed have pushed the majority of people over the cultural tipping point on environmental issues. The result has been millions of more sustainable choices being made every...

On the First Day of Christmas My True Love Sent to Me

‘I’m bored, I’m the chairman of the bored’ was released by Iggy Pop in 1979. I love that song. There are three earworms in my life that crop up when my state of mind needs them. The first is ‘Men of...

The Future Accelerated: Five Post-COVID-19 Predictions

Recently I have found myself comparing COVID-19 to 410AD, but not because it was the prelude to a new Dark Age, but rather the reverse, that we have been sleepwalking for decades into an apocalyptic future, with no regard for...