Steven Kell has noted the relevance of Illich's ideas to computing and software: https://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/srk21/research/talks/kell19de-escalatin

Steven Kell has noted the relevance of Illich's ideas to computing and software: https://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/srk21/research/talks/kell19de-escalating-intro-script.txt https://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/srk21/research/talks/... "Ivan Illich was a 20th-century philosopher whose work recurringly examines the counterproductivity of modern social institutions. ... I encountered Illich's writing entirely by chance, but was immediately struck by how directly his words transferred to described what I saw as the plight of software." https://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/srk21/research/talks/kell19software-slides.pdf https://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/srk21/research/talks/... "Software Against Humanity? An Illichian perspective on the industrial era of software ... (Ivan Illich) observed that (institutions he criticised were) poor at (their) stated ends... the means and ends had become confused! (those institutions) can still be self-sustaining, can still claim advances by (their) own criteria ..."