Is Sustainable IT an oxymoron? “Deafening silence”, “economic forecast”, “military intelligence” - these phrases are familiar oxymorons, a term for a figure of speech in which seemingly contradictory terms appear together. You can find long lists of similar terms very quickly using your favourite search engine. “Sustainable information technology” doesn’t seem to appear in any of them - but I think that it should - at least for the time-being…