What if all these weird tech trends actually add up to something? Last time, we explored why various bits of trendy technology are, in my o...
We used to get excited about technology. What happened?
Innovation that truly serves us all is in scarce supply. That’s a problem.
Wrap to 2025, Proem to 2026
Technological Paradigm Shifts are fundamental changes in technology that reshape industries and society.
People Loved the Dot-Com Boom. The A.I. Boom, Not So Much.
Tech leaders are beginning to worry about the public’s underwhelming enthusiasm for their plans to remake the world with artificial intelligence. Will that burst the bubble?
What’s the best technology that doesn’t exist yet?
We analyzed 100+ conversations and essays on positive futures to find out
After Forty Years, Still No Silver Bullet
As always, technology can help with production. What’s scarce is orientation.
Women in Tech Stats 2026
The Tech industry has long been a male-dominated world but as we entered a new decade it is time to look at the position of women in tech.
Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology
A witty, often terrifying that chronicles our transform…
Appropriate Measures — Real Life
Changing the tech we use is not enough to mitigate the environmental and social harm of mass technology
Something Big Is Happening
A personal note for non-tech friends and family on what AI is starting to change.
Our Longing for Inconvenience
People are pining for old technologies—CD players, VCRs, Walkmans. What’s behind our longing for inconvenience?
Presentations — Benedict Evans
Every year, I produce a big presentation exploring macro and strategic trends in the tech industry. New in May 2025, ‘AI eats the world’.
Techno-solutionism
“techno-solutionism,” the simplification of complex societal problems into apps and algorithms. Ed-Tech’s Inequalities “Technological solutionism” is the related tendency to identify simple answers — in all domains, not just the tech sector — “before the questions have been fully asked” or the problems fully articulated. Take, for example: “the Internet has changed everything about how […]
70 years of AI hype
Quoting from Olivia Guest et al. (2025) "Against the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia."
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