About two and a half years ago, I submitted a two-page abstract entitled “De-escalating software: counterproductivity versus conviviality” to the conference on History and Philosophy of Computation (HaPoC), proposing a talk the philosophy of Ivan Illich interpreted in the domain of software. I had already given a couple of experimentaltalks about it that appeared to be well-received. The idea was to push myself into developing these ideas a bit more, as a waypoint to eventually publishing...
