In April 2024 I gave the opening keynote at the software industry conference “QCon London” under the title "The Home Computer That Roared: How the BBC Micro Shaped Our World".
triumph of the nerds
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’.
Celebrating the 75th Anniversary of the Turing Test
IBM's "Man & Computer" (1967)
William Latham - Art and the Computer (1990)
The Git-ification of the World — Tim Morrissey
Why AI conquered software first, and what that tells us about which industries are next.
Supersonic Labs on Twitter / X
lol, and we mogged Jev on a i5 ideapad with 16gb of RAM: https://t.co/T69NuUQxHK pic.twitter.com/VlPiH22xtb— Supersonic Labs (@supersonicai) September 23, 2026
The One Thing Every Software Engineer Should Know
I’m a huge Steve Yegge fan, so It was a great honor to have Steve Yegge on a recent Stack Overflow podcast. One thing I couldn’t have predicted, however, was one particular theme of Steve’s experience at Google and Amazon that kept coming up time and time
Apple Knowledge Navigator Video (1987)
We Build On Hope @ PublicSpaces Conference 2026
Keynote by Robin Berjon The current state of tech can feel disheartening. Years of critical analysis and reform efforts have left us with a digital sphere that seems worse than ever. In Europe, our...
Dell's CES 2026 chat was the most pleasingly un-AI briefing I've had in maybe 5 years
"A bit of a shift from a year ago where we were all about the AI PC."
Marc Andreessen – Why Software Is Eating The World
2011 Big Tunechi op-ed from the WSJ. Horowitz: Thank you for everything you’ve done to make RapGenius happen–I write about why it’s one of the internet’s foundational sources of
The International Research Conference in the History of Computing at Los Alamos, 1976
I think of all of the AI / ML / CS tech out there, speech generation freaks me out the most.
Opensourcing TADA: Fast, Reliable Speech Generation Through Text-Acoustic Synchronization
www.hume.aiI had the honor of giving a keynote at the International Conference on Machine Learning last week. I addressed the widespread anxiety about how we should adapt as AI capabilities increase. I was thrilled by the talk’s reception, so I have made my slides available cs.princeton.edu/~arvindn/talks/icml-2026-anno…
What will be left for us to work on?
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