De-anthropomorphizing language talks about computer systems in terms of their functionality (what people build and/or use them to do), assigns agency to people using systems and not systems, and avoids aggrandizing metaphors about cognition.

Five authors reflect about how the web used to work and what it used to feel like, the strange and sorry thing it's become, and the good that's worth remembering when so much of what we love is dying, or already long gone. Contributions by Siva Vaidhyanathan, Avery Dame-Griff, Joanna Walsh, Chad Wellmon & Cory Doctorow.

Censée permettre à l'agriculture de lutter contre les sécheresses liées au changement climatique, la mégabassine de Sainte-Soline s'est retrouvée à sec au moment même où elle était censée être la plus utile.