标题：The Smartphone Story and Energy Efficiency
章节概要
- 智能手机的影响：介绍了智能手机取代了很多以前被认为必不可少的设备。
- 智能手机与气候变化：阐述智能手机的设计理念（关注功能而非形式）可作为应对气候变化的模型，这种理念有助于革新能效思考方式。
- 能效思考的转变：传统的能效改进多关注单个设备，而新的思考方式应关注所需功能，如取暖、出行方面的例子。
详细内容
Hi, this is Alex from MinuteEarth. Back in the early 2000s, lots of people couldn't imagine life without alarm clocks, CD players, calendars, cameras or lots of other devices. But along came the iPhone and other smartphones, and they took over the functions of dozens of things we used to think were essential.
The smartphone story could even be a model for fighting climate change. Not because smartphones use a fraction of the energy of all the things they replace, although they do, but because they represent a different approach to design in general, and that approach is to focus on function rather than form. That requires focusing on understanding the underlying problem, and then engineering a wide spectrum of potential solutions. This approach could revolutionize how we think about energy efficiency.
Traditionally, improvements in energy efficiency have mostly focused on individual devices, which can be quite fruitful, but focusing on individual devices is kind of like if Apple had spent effort inventing a better alarm clock, a better CD player, a better calendar, and a better camera. With an iPhone, we don't need the standard low - end devices at all because it can function as all of them.
So when it comes to using energy efficiently, rather than just installing a more efficient furnace, some people have focused instead on the desired function, staying warm. They designed and insulated their house so well that they could get rid of their furnaces altogether, letting them heat their house with 99% less energy.
In the same way, rather than just making cars more efficient, what if we focus on the desired function, getting where we want, when we want and create an efficient transportation system where we can drive less or get rid of our personal cars entirely. The most efficient car or furnace is no car or no furnace while still being able to get around and stay warm. In other words, it's not thinking efficient, it's thinking different.
总结
本文以智能手机取代多种设备为切入点，阐述了智能手机设计理念（关注功能而非形式）在应对气候变化方面的潜在价值，进而倡导在能效方面转变思考方式，从关注单个设备能效转向关注所需功能，从而达到更高的能效目标。