Jon Evans

CTO, HappyFunCorp

Jon Evans is the CTO of the engineering consultancy HappyFunCorp; the award-winning author of six novels, one graphic novel, and a book of travel writing; and TechCrunch’s weekend columnist since 2010.

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Our grimdark meathook cyberpunk now
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May 31, 2020
Living and working in a worsening world
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May 24, 2020

Why are people who cite videos always wrong?
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May 17, 2020
Seven viral futures
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May 10, 2020
Let housing rise from the empty offices and malls
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May 3, 2020
Magic Leap’s $2.6 billion bait and switch
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Apr 26, 2020

How to make sense of the coronavirus chaos
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Apr 19, 2020
What do we do with the positives?
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Apr 12, 2020
GrubHub/Seamless’s pandemic initiatives are predatory and exploitative, and it’s time to stop using them
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Apr 5, 2020
Test and trace with Apple and Google
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Mar 29, 2020

Into and after the viral storm
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Mar 22, 2020
Our infected machine
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Mar 15, 2020
Burn the EARN IT Act
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Mar 8, 2020
May we live in interesting times
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Mar 1, 2020

What happens if a pandemic hits?
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Feb 23, 2020
DeFiance: billion-dollar finance, million-dollar hacks, and very little value
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Feb 18, 2020
The war against space hackers: how the JPL works to secure its missions from nation-state adversaries
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Feb 9, 2020
Everyone loves the coronapocalypse
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Feb 2, 2020

Technology is anthropology
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Jan 26, 2020
The marketplace of ideas is a weapons market now
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Jan 20, 2020
R.I.P. Goofy Times
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Jan 12, 2020
Software and the war against complexity
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Jan 5, 2020

It’s The Jons 2019!
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Dec 29, 2019
Whatever happened to the Next Big Things?
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Dec 22, 2019
The new new weird
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Dec 15, 2019
Away with them
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Dec 9, 2019

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Mass media vs. social media
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Dec 2, 2019
Reasons to be climate cheerful (ish)
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Nov 24, 2019
Bored of the coins
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Nov 17, 2019
The post-exponential era of AI and Moore’s Law
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Nov 10, 2019