{"id":16201,"date":"2024-07-27T15:30:03","date_gmt":"2024-07-27T15:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=16201"},"modified":"2024-07-27T15:38:31","modified_gmt":"2024-07-27T15:38:31","slug":"internet-efficiency-prizes-internet-best-practices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/?p=16201","title":{"rendered":"Internet Efficiency Prizes, Internet Best Practices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Morning Brew: Why the Internet Is Running Out of Electricity at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=xHuoWV3Jwik\">http:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=xHuoWV3Jwik<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Internet as a whole is grossly inefficient, sending megabytes where a few Kilobytes would do. Gigabytes where MegaBytes would do. Rarely do you get offered an index and selection from data &#8220;sharing&#8221;, it is &#8220;click here to download petabytes, see we&#8217;re sharing&#8221;. The data centers like it because they can say &#8220;I need more people, I need more machines, I need more buildings, I need more power&#8221; (pun intended). Efficiency gains are definitely possible. But &#8220;big and expensive&#8221; beats &#8220;small and efficient&#8221; whenever plans are made. For the last 26 years of the Internet Foundation, it got worse every year. Greed and &#8220;grow without limits&#8221; is what wins every time, not sustainable global systems. Encourage groups to at least try. It is possible, but not likely as long as boasting and &#8220;big&#8221; and bragging usually beat benign and beautiful. The incentives are all wrong, the Internet is badly designed and operated. Read any plans, and see if they offer &#8220;we&#8217;re going to be bigger &#8211; unlimited growth to benefit a few&#8221; or &#8220;sustainable and sufficient, distributed and collaborative and accessible to all&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Filed as (Internet Efficiency Prizes, Internet Best Practices)<\/p>\n<p>Richard Collins, The Internet Foundation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Morning Brew: Why the Internet Is Running Out of Electricity at\u00a0http:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=xHuoWV3Jwik The Internet as a whole is grossly inefficient, sending megabytes where a few Kilobytes would do. Gigabytes where MegaBytes would do. Rarely do you get offered an index and selection from data &#8220;sharing&#8221;, it is &#8220;click here to download petabytes, see we&#8217;re sharing&#8221;. The <br \/><a class=\"read-more-button\" href=\"\/?p=16201\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73,72,66,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-knowledge","category-all-languages","category-efficiency-prizes","category-internet-efficiency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16201"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16205,"href":"\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16201\/revisions\/16205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}