Melissa Gregg
@melgregg.bsky.social
Professor of Digital Futures at the University of Bristol and sustainability advisor at Meta Reality Labs. On loan from lutruwita/ Tasmania. https://melgregg.com
In the Nov-Dec issue of ACM-Interactions, I summarize ongoing discussions with @digitaldang.bsky.social and others working on the regional contours of electronics afterlives. interactions.acm.org/archive/view...
November 14, 2025 at 5:21 PM
In the Nov-Dec issue of ACM-Interactions, I summarize ongoing discussions with @digitaldang.bsky.social and others working on the regional contours of electronics afterlives. interactions.acm.org/archive/view...
Irony of watching a talk on energy use in silicon wafer production with so many AI generated illustrations of sustainable chip production
November 12, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Irony of watching a talk on energy use in silicon wafer production with so many AI generated illustrations of sustainable chip production
1920s DuPont advertisement equating chemical engineer with Prometheus
October 26, 2025 at 7:47 AM
1920s DuPont advertisement equating chemical engineer with Prometheus
Part way through Roland Marchand’s sublime account of PR, Creating the Corporate Soul
October 24, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Part way through Roland Marchand’s sublime account of PR, Creating the Corporate Soul
I forgot about this
September 2, 2025 at 5:04 PM
I forgot about this
The first location was this (gorgeous) former Martin Marietta building, which Tektronix bought and donated for the purposes of establishing the Graduate Center to attract and retain tech talent in Oregon. #SiliconForest
August 14, 2025 at 6:08 PM
The first location was this (gorgeous) former Martin Marietta building, which Tektronix bought and donated for the purposes of establishing the Graduate Center to attract and retain tech talent in Oregon. #SiliconForest
I've driven past this site thousands of times, and never realized it was once the Oregon Graduate Center, a private, postgraduate-only research university which ran from 1963 until it merged with OHSU in 2001. Founded by Portland business leaders from a Tektronix endowment.
August 14, 2025 at 4:00 PM
I've driven past this site thousands of times, and never realized it was once the Oregon Graduate Center, a private, postgraduate-only research university which ran from 1963 until it merged with OHSU in 2001. Founded by Portland business leaders from a Tektronix endowment.
I have been researching books about birds for a side project and this one made me LOL www.booktopia.com.au/covers/big/9...
August 1, 2025 at 1:36 AM
I have been researching books about birds for a side project and this one made me LOL www.booktopia.com.au/covers/big/9...
Sharing breakfast with the neighborhood turbo chooks earlier today
July 30, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Sharing breakfast with the neighborhood turbo chooks earlier today
Day three of @iamcr.org and Kerrie Foxwell Norton is dropping some truth bombs on the field of environmental communication having failed the Great Barrier Reef
July 16, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Day three of @iamcr.org and Kerrie Foxwell Norton is dropping some truth bombs on the field of environmental communication having failed the Great Barrier Reef
Sometimes NPS is entirely the right metric measuringu.com/meeting-soft...
July 2, 2025 at 6:23 AM
Sometimes NPS is entirely the right metric measuringu.com/meeting-soft...
I don’t understand this England
May 31, 2025 at 1:35 PM
I don’t understand this England
We may have to start day drinking over here in UK
May 3, 2025 at 10:47 AM
We may have to start day drinking over here in UK
Need a new word for panic reading all the books one didn’t read before moving country forces drastic culling
February 13, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Need a new word for panic reading all the books one didn’t read before moving country forces drastic culling
A big week of talking digital futures. Today we are streaming from Bristol to Leuphana, mapping the contours of "Planetary UX": research and design within planetary boundaries.
January 21, 2025 at 9:24 AM
A big week of talking digital futures. Today we are streaming from Bristol to Leuphana, mapping the contours of "Planetary UX": research and design within planetary boundaries.
More Silicon Forest research today. Here are some fundraising and promotion photographs from the 1880s when Oregon's 'Forest Grove Indian School' got going.
January 19, 2025 at 3:59 PM
More Silicon Forest research today. Here are some fundraising and promotion photographs from the 1880s when Oregon's 'Forest Grove Indian School' got going.
Oregon is now no 3 *worldwide* for IT workload in data centers.
January 9, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Oregon is now no 3 *worldwide* for IT workload in data centers.
Both of these are derived from research in Heike Mayer's PhD thesis from Portland State, and the visualizations are by Kayoko Teramoto, a graduate of PSU's graphic design program. www.pdx.edu/metropolitan...
January 5, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Both of these are derived from research in Heike Mayer's PhD thesis from Portland State, and the visualizations are by Kayoko Teramoto, a graduate of PSU's graphic design program. www.pdx.edu/metropolitan...
This weekend's research find is an interplanetary mapping of the Silicon Forest - tech companies that emerged from the Tektronix and Intel. There's also one of Boise, Idaho showing the outsized impact of HP's lab there.
January 5, 2025 at 6:38 PM
This weekend's research find is an interplanetary mapping of the Silicon Forest - tech companies that emerged from the Tektronix and Intel. There's also one of Boise, Idaho showing the outsized impact of HP's lab there.
Dr Arman Shehabi from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory on data center electricity demand over time (TWh). The orange is preliminary work but shows the moment when GPUs start showing up from 2017, accounting for 60-70% of the growth to 2023.
January 3, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Dr Arman Shehabi from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory on data center electricity demand over time (TWh). The orange is preliminary work but shows the moment when GPUs start showing up from 2017, accounting for 60-70% of the growth to 2023.
The outrage of my fellow Bristol library patron spilleth over in the closing pages of Aldo Leopold’s Sand County Almanac. I hear you.
January 3, 2025 at 12:00 PM
The outrage of my fellow Bristol library patron spilleth over in the closing pages of Aldo Leopold’s Sand County Almanac. I hear you.
More reasons for humanities and social science graduates in engineering companies: the history of media studies shows that consumption while doing housework has been a use case since forever. www.meta.com/en-gb/blog/q...
December 29, 2024 at 7:08 PM
More reasons for humanities and social science graduates in engineering companies: the history of media studies shows that consumption while doing housework has been a use case since forever. www.meta.com/en-gb/blog/q...
In 2014, I spent a week driving around NSW documenting as many CWA buildings as possible, including the former Potts Point HQ. So much history of women's influence on communities large and small. Must do more with this!
December 27, 2024 at 8:35 AM
In 2014, I spent a week driving around NSW documenting as many CWA buildings as possible, including the former Potts Point HQ. So much history of women's influence on communities large and small. Must do more with this!
After years of listening to my Dad's fandom I finally read a Bill Bryson book. Among the many factoids: brick was so popular in c19th England because it was about the only material that could withstand the air pollution.
December 24, 2024 at 5:58 PM
After years of listening to my Dad's fandom I finally read a Bill Bryson book. Among the many factoids: brick was so popular in c19th England because it was about the only material that could withstand the air pollution.