R.I.P. Goofy Times

A strange new sensation has settled across the tech industry, one so foreign, so alien, it’s…

Software and the war against complexity

Look around: what is happening? Australia, AI, Ghosn, Google, Suleimani, Starlink, Trump, TikTok. The world is…

It’s The Jons 2019!

Happy New Year! It’s been another wild and wacky ride of a year in the tech…

Whatever happened to the Next Big Things?

In tech, this was the smartphone decade. In 2009, Symbian was still the dominant ‘smartphone’ OS,…

The new new weird

Neo-Pentecostal gangs in Brazil, driving out other faiths at gunpoint. A mob of 100 lawyers attacking…

Away with them

Every so often a story comes along which is unremarkable on its face but erupts into…

Mass media vs. social media

In the waning years of the last millennium, at my university, one of the cause célèbres…

Reasons to be climate cheerful (ish)

The International Energy Agency published its annual World Energy Outlook ten days ago. In this era…

Bored of the coins

Something strange is afoot in the world of cryptocurrencies. For the first time since Satoshi dropped…

The post-exponential era of AI and Moore’s Law

My MacBook Pro is three years old, and for the first time in my life, a…