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Technology: Tech Tools Enabling Sustainability
New technology tools are being applied to the problem of sustainability. The goal of combining technology with sustainability is to create businesses that minimize damage to our natural world and enable employees and customers to be healthier.
How can technology help reach sustainability goals? A report by PwC found 80 different ways in which AI alone could be applied to bring benefits to the environment. Some of their ideas include optimizing energy usage, creating “hyperlocal” weather forecasts, and better monitoring of the supply chain.
Similarly, at an IBM Think 2019 conference, numerous ideas and innovations were unveiled and discussed that could help improve how the world manages and conserves our food and water.
AI plus simulations will enable us to model all aspects affecting agriculture. This includes things like soil quality, farming equipment, pricing and the supply chain. The model will help farmers become more efficient.
Blockchain will be applied to improve and eliminate waste in the food chain. “Food loss will diminish greatly and the produce that ends up in consumers’ carts will be fresher when blockchain technology, IoT devices, and AI algorithms join forces.”
Materials Science innovations will enable a new generation of more easily recyclable plastics that can be used as containers for almost everything. VolCat, a catalytic chemical process will enable plastics to be decomposed and reused for new containers and products.
Arvind Krishna, SVP of IBM Cloud and Cognitive Software, said that “when the eight billionth person is born on Earth, she will enter a world more connected, more interdependent and more responsive to change than the one her parents ever imagined. This is the future that awaits us all.”
