So, yes, an Amazon Dash-style IoT predicated on consumption and inaction, but also hopefully a more imaginative one, in which creation and co-operation also have agency.
Smart meters give utility firms data on consumption patterns inside households.
The consumption diary approach also gives useful information on consumption patterns.
Much of our current economic growth is predicated on conspicuous consumption of finite materials routinely used for relatively brief periods of time and then disposed of in landfills.
Investigators' responses suggest the commercialization of human microbiome research, for example the production and distribution of over-the-counter dietary supplements, is predicated on mass consumption, not health or wellbeing, in pursuit of potential profits.
In evolution each step is predicated on an existing pattern which has been formulated in the course of previous evolutionary steps, the pattern being copied (by one means or another) and so retained between steps.
"We have all this logic of prior commitments and it's predicated on this sprawling pattern of growth," he said.
MDA is predicated on the presence of patterns in the data; single occurrences of any kind are effectively noise.
The effectiveness of this process was predicated on existing relationships, known patterns of working and the number of people involved.
The FSEIS uses models which are all predicated on a "business as usual" energy consumption patterns through 2035 leading to a catastrophic 6 degree Celsius increase in global temperatures.
Now we're trying to take that ethos to a larger scale, to really build a new type of computer company from the ground up, one that is predicated on creativity, rather than just consumption".
