I guess this is a double-check on consumption and data traffic....

Stuff that never switches and constantly is demanded... this is a type of death for what I think is unmeasured and deliberately less clear in it's calculation and infrastructure...

Probably similar to cars - once a system supports making these things, burning lots of energy and 'supplying' the waste then we can easily sit and we download, and delete, we think it's ok to drive sports cars and switching economy classes.

And now our media and new structures are uploading / syncing / streaming / crazy lots of things for crazy more things. Arguably extra things. Not saving planet, and perhaps could kill it less if not saving.

Becoming more disposable <--- that's cheap for the world like throwing away energy instead of being a bit mindful about it (conscious).
Especially making mistakes and redoing whole massive backups / files/processor intensive videos etc etc

New generations are less likely to remember or understand how basic it was back then and how it was such a major achievement just to get things to talk to each other and now it's like always talking and chattering computers.

How humbling 1 movie a day was (if you really tried). You were happy for each mp3 (not whole discographies)... wasn't even possible with dial-up for many things, so you had to choose your media! This had benefits but also I know I'm not perfect in what I'm saying and everything is skew or catching up or wasn't perfect then... but the fact other people put money into it perhaps shows something... where it was more of a geeky educational things before...

The lightweight net can be possible. And for me the possibility is more about funnelling work back into the human side of things (teaching / distribution) via live audio chats and real brain changing memorable / engaging things.

If we could keep it at megabytes and Gigabytes then we could economise like driving a small car rather than tank everywhere and wondering why America itself or American companies are doing war / buying out everything.

If we're always upgrading or increasing according to Maximums then the ratio of worth to humanity is questionable and can be less since often humans DO MORE with less as they appreciate it.
(what we are doing now in practice with the data and disposed bits are often waste or more precisely unconscious/less conscious spending of time / data streams)

If load and speed is used/abused then we become more dependant and our own time is also a cost factor in doing things from Bytes and Kb's per file (floppy disk for programs) to Mb's and Gb's (software, games movie downloads) to Tb's to Pb to Eb to Zb and beyond... and so you see we do similar things but ratio increases even for games we still would be happy playing or more creative in... yeah eye candy but also too many army games massive in their installations and online gaming...

...and who is supplying the infrastructure?

The people we don't like mostly!
Tech which is from corrupt people and from cost we haven't really computed in the doing of things - this would be a good study but I already know keeping massive operations running (even if you don't see the data going back and forth) is never going to be good when it comes to consumption of energy and time (at the same time ALL THE TIME).

My final point is that at least before it was turned off (almost as a whole structure or as a habit. And now we have energy drain all the time for questionable uses and filesizes for everything in every way people could find).

Minimal for the human way and ecological.
For #climatechange or whatever. Any of the above reasons are a more of a measured way than assuming its ok to consume all you can eat #computer streams, #data, #web. #technology etc..