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’.
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.
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."
The International Research Conference in the History of Computing at Los Alamos, 1976
The Agentic Browser Summit · Luma
The Agentic Browser Summit is our inaugural collective of keynotes, discussions, and industry perspectives taking on the most ambitious end-game of software…
Ubuntu Summit 25.10 | Day Two
Ubuntu Summit 2024 | Day Three
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?
www.cs.princeton.eduA great talk from @jenson.org on why and how to move the desktop paradigm forward. I especially loved the prototypes/concepts; even if not perfectly refined it’s still nice to see someone put some stakes in the ground. (And FWIW I think they were all pretty solid!)
Scott Jenson
Thoroughly enjoyed speaking at #UbuntuSummit today. Thank you organizers! I spoke about the need for new foundational #UX improvements to the Desktop UX. Very lively audience! youtube.com/live/WvNgMEumSoA?t=17225s
