Simon Evans is Staring at the Sun

Simon Evans is Back! Waaaay back…

With growing evidence that we are living in a Computer
Simulation – and a pretty glitchy, off-brand simulation at
that – and the approaching watershed of the AI
Singularity looming like a weirdly pixelated cumulo-
nimbus on the horizon, BBC Radio 4 stalwart and veteran
of a quarter century of highly acclaimed stand-up comedy
Simon Evans is squinting at an uncertain future, and
revisiting the blue remembered hills of his youth.

The analogue world of hitch-hiking, pub bets and hedge
porn. Of being able to get properly lost. And also
pondering the great thinkers and mystics of the past who
had, it seems, the same doubts and misgivings about
“reality”, back when an adjustable sandal passed for

cutting-edge tech.