Digital Rebound – The unintended consequences of digitalization
数字回弹——数字化的意外后果
Author: Vlad C. Coroamă（弗拉德·C·科罗亚默）、Friedemann Mattern（弗里德曼·马特恩）
Source：《ICT for Sustainability》2019
Abstract: Digitalization as a technological phenomenon of the 21st century has the power to redeem most environmental sins of our 20th century technology. This seems to be a popular belief shining through many of the optimistic media reports on digitalization. We believe, however, that this mindset is far too simplistic and counterproductive. The many indirect economic and social effects of digitalization, which turn efficiency gains into increased resource consumption, are often ignored. We discuss these countereffects in general, as well as their digitalization-specific flavor (i.e., the digital rebound). We give examples of digital rebound, and also analyze several conditions that seem to lead to its eschewal. Altogether, we try to make the case for a faithful consideration of the rebound effects of digitalization.
文摘：数字化作为21世纪的一种技术现象，具有挽20世纪技术所犯下的大部分环境罪行的力量。这似乎是许多关于数字化的乐观媒体报道中所流露出的普遍信念。然而，我们认为这种思维模式过于简单化且会产生适得其反的效果。数字化产生的诸多间接经济和社会影响往往被忽视，而正是这些影响将效率收益转化为了资源消耗的增加。本文讨论了这些普遍存在的抵消效应，以及它们在数字化背景下的特定表现形式（即数字回弹效应）。我们提供了数字回弹的实例，并分析了似乎能够避免该效应的若干条件。总而言之，我们力求论证在评估数字化时必须忠实考量其回弹效应。
Keywords: Rebound; efficiency; resources; energy; digital rebound
编译：刘鑫
