This article revisits the question of the natural contract at the epoch of modernity, before looking at platforms to show that the digital economy is a break within a continuity, that of the productivist economy, which therefore does not meet contemporary ecological issues. He concludes the need for a degrowth or even a collapsology of the digital.
CLIL theme: 3157 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Sciences de l'information et de la communication