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diff --git a/permaculture.mdwn b/permaculture.mdwn @@ -9,3 +9,9 @@ In particular, permaculture inspires permacomputing to: * Turning waste into resources and constraints into possibilities. * Explorative, imaginative and positive attitudes towards sustainable design, as opposed to "returning to the past" or "having to tolerate lesser resources". * Opposition to the mainstream technological industry while offering a tangible alternative. + +Permacomputing isn't the first attempt to bridge permaculture and computing. Earlier examples include: + + * [The Permaculture entry on WikiWikiWeb](http://wiki.c2.com/?PermaCulture) connects it with software design patterns but does not connect to the ecological reality. + * Kent Beck's talk "Programming as a garden: Permaprogramming" similarly drew inspiration from the philosophy to software design without the ecological aspect. + * [Amanda Starling Gould](https://amandastarlinggould.com/research/)'s 2017 doctoral dissertation [https://dukespace.lib.duke.edu/dspace/handle/10161/14457]("Digital Environmental Metabolisms: An Ecocritical Project of the Digital Environmental Humanities") centers around the ecological aspect but concentrates on end-user activities.