Let me begin by saying that Facebook’s Crisis Response pages do a lot of good. They…
Author: Jon Evans
When do you go native?
So you’re a startup founder. Or you’re in charge of a new project at a big…
Privacy is a commons
“The commons is the cultural and natural resources accessible to all members of a society,” quoth…
The infrastructural humiliation of America
I’m flying back to the USA today, and as an infrastructure aficionado, it’s nice to be…
The new Two Minutes Hate
You see it first on Facebook or Twitter. Something contemptible: an image, or a video, or…
Technology’s dark forest
We used to be such optimists. Technology would bring us a world of wealth in harmony…
Our dystopian cyberpunk here and now
We in the West love our apocalyptic science fiction, in which cartoonishly evil authorities ruthlessly oppress…
The YKarma experiment
Blockchains are boring now. It’s been ten years since Bitcoin launched, and cryptocurrencies have almost exclusively…
It’s the Jons 2018!
It was the best of years, it was the worst of years, it was the wokest…
Here comes the downturn
It’s remarkable how fast the tenor of the times has changed. Only a few months ago…