# Permacomputing - An approach to computing for hundreds of years

- Institution: CERN
- Department: IT Lightning Talks (ITLT)
- Speaker: Richard Bachmann
- Year: 2025
- Language: English
- Subjects: Computer science
- Source: [CERN](https://videos.cern.ch/record/3023295)
- Licence: [CERN](http://copyright.web.cern.ch)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Modern computing suffers from a severe short sightedness. Most developments are driven by quarterly results, our habits become ever more computationally expensive.

In an age of environmental crisis, is there a different way to think of how we compute?

This talk gives an introduction to Permacomputing - a young philosophy and toolbox for computing over the span of hundreds of years..

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## Lectures

1. [Permacomputing - An approach to computing for hundreds of years](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/cern/3023295/204cd1963921), 9 min (CERN's player)