Sustainability in personal computing
Introduction
Sustainable development is the development that emphasizes to meet the basic needs and satisfy the aspirations for a better life of both present and future generations [1]. This developmental pattern is regarded as a long-term goal which would be achieved only if the consumption meets the criterion of sustainability. In the modern world, the consumption of technology, especially, the personal computing have played a staple role of personal consumption. It is a fact that there has been a sharp increasing in the consumption of electronic equipment in the last twenty years [7]. The number of equipment that are needed, the time that people use these equipment, which have had an access, have generated …show more content…
One the on hand, reusing the parts of phone, on the other hand, reducing the use of toxic materials. The reusing means to dismantle some components of the obsoleted phone and install on another phone. For example, a battery could be designed to be used to similar products in different brands. Therefore, the idle batteries would be reused in new devices, instead of storing and throwing away. Therefore, the replaceable components improve the utilization of material and reduce the pollution caused by toxic material. However, as it is impossible that all devises use one kind of battery, as the result of the different power needs of devices, it is hard to design lots of replaceable components for devices. Therefore, this approach is quite limited. Reusing components cannot solve the problem basically. Reducing the use of materials is to find other sustainable materials to replace the toxic materials. This approach is effective, however, it will take a long term to find an appropriate …show more content…
There have been companies use intelligent application management. When a user no longer interacts with an app, the app is send to where activity is throttled and the app may be suspended, called background state [7]. However, these way still waste power to keep the App running. As the result, the intelligent applications management could be designed to provide a choice for the users, which applications can be closed when the users do not interact with these applications for a certain long time. After that the devices could turn off some applications automatically following the user needs. Although the energy saved for each application is limited, the accumulation is unneglectable.
Conclusion
This essay has discussed two problems of the sustainability of personal computing, the toxic material in the obsoleted devices and the standby energy. The two solutions that have been mentioned to solve the first problem are not effective. But the development of intelligent application management could save the standby energy. The problems of the sustainability in this field is not only these two, if many other good designs are come up with, the personal computing would be much more sustainable and bring much
Introduction
Sustainable development is the development that emphasizes to meet the basic needs and satisfy the aspirations for a better life of both present and future generations [1]. This developmental pattern is regarded as a long-term goal which would be achieved only if the consumption meets the criterion of sustainability. In the modern world, the consumption of technology, especially, the personal computing have played a staple role of personal consumption. It is a fact that there has been a sharp increasing in the consumption of electronic equipment in the last twenty years [7]. The number of equipment that are needed, the time that people use these equipment, which have had an access, have generated …show more content…
One the on hand, reusing the parts of phone, on the other hand, reducing the use of toxic materials. The reusing means to dismantle some components of the obsoleted phone and install on another phone. For example, a battery could be designed to be used to similar products in different brands. Therefore, the idle batteries would be reused in new devices, instead of storing and throwing away. Therefore, the replaceable components improve the utilization of material and reduce the pollution caused by toxic material. However, as it is impossible that all devises use one kind of battery, as the result of the different power needs of devices, it is hard to design lots of replaceable components for devices. Therefore, this approach is quite limited. Reusing components cannot solve the problem basically. Reducing the use of materials is to find other sustainable materials to replace the toxic materials. This approach is effective, however, it will take a long term to find an appropriate …show more content…
There have been companies use intelligent application management. When a user no longer interacts with an app, the app is send to where activity is throttled and the app may be suspended, called background state [7]. However, these way still waste power to keep the App running. As the result, the intelligent applications management could be designed to provide a choice for the users, which applications can be closed when the users do not interact with these applications for a certain long time. After that the devices could turn off some applications automatically following the user needs. Although the energy saved for each application is limited, the accumulation is unneglectable.
Conclusion
This essay has discussed two problems of the sustainability of personal computing, the toxic material in the obsoleted devices and the standby energy. The two solutions that have been mentioned to solve the first problem are not effective. But the development of intelligent application management could save the standby energy. The problems of the sustainability in this field is not only these two, if many other good designs are come up with, the personal computing would be much more sustainable and bring much