With so many of us carrying computers in our pockets, it might be easy to imagine they’re stand-alone devices. However, they are connected to each other - and they connect us all - through wired and wireless technologies. How do we network different types of computers? At scale, do the computer networks we use harm the environment? What will the future of computer networks look like? To explore these questions, look through the resources below!
What IS Computer Networking?
https://www.lifewire.com/what-is-computer-networking-816249
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_network
Ok, so how do you network computers?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKfk7YFILws
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSodBEAJz9Y
https://computer.howstuffworks.com/computer-networking-channel.htm
Is a “mesh network” better for you home than a traditional wifi router?
https://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/article/659354/mesh-wi-fi-vs-traditional-routers-which-better/
https://www.howtogeek.com/336045/how-secure-are-mesh-wi-fi-networks/
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The data centers that enable cloud computing eat up enormous amounts of energy—much of which comes from fossil fuels. By 2030, data center demand could reach 13% of the world’s total electricity consumption
https://www.mdpi.com/2078-1547/6/1/117
Training one natural language processing pipeline can emit over 78,000 lbs of CO2 equivalent. That's more than the average human's climate change impact over a two-year period
The massive amounts of data to sort through will only increase as we inch closer to climate change’s “point of no return.” The National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration alone collects ~20 terabytes of data daily
https://environment-review.yale.edu/too-little-too-late-carbon-emissions-and-point-no-return
According to Microsoft’s Project Natick, storing data centers below the ocean could be instrumental in reducing their energy consumption
https://news.microsoft.com/innovation-stories/project-natick-underwater-datacenter/
One of the first computer networking successes was in 1940, when George Stibitz used a teletype machine to send data to a remote complex number calculator
https://computer.howstuffworks.com/computer-networking-pictures.htm
https://www.pcr-online.biz/2016/02/11/a-brief-history-of-computer-networking/
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