Christopher Evans (computer scientist)
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Dr Christopher Riche Evans (1931 – October 10, 1979) was a British psychologist and computer scientist.
Evans entered the field of computer science after joining the National Physical Laboratory in the mid 1950s. In 1979, he wrote a book about the oncoming microcomputer revolution. The Mighty Micro: The Impact of the Computer Revolution (London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, ISBN 0-575-02708-8), which included predictions for the future up to the year 2000. This book was also printed in the USA, but called The Micro Millennium (New York: The Viking Press, ISBN 0-670-47400-2). He subsequently scripted and presented for the commercial television company ATV a six-part television series based on this book and broadcast posthumously by ITV between October and December 1979.
His other books include Cults of Unreason, a study of Scientology and other perceived pseudoscience, and Landscapes of the Night—how and why we dream.
In the 1970s, Evans undertook a set of interviews with computer pioneers such as Konrad Zuse and Grace Hopper. These were released through the Science Museum, London, as a set of cassette tapes, collectively entitled Pioneers of Computing.
Dr Evans also edited two anthologies of psychological science fiction/horror stories, Mind at Bay and Mind in Chains, a collection of science writings, "Cybernetics: Key Papers," a reference book "Psychology: A Dictionary of Mind, Brain and Behaviour," and was a contributing editor to the science magazine Omni.
Evans was married with two children in London. A Welshman whose uncle Caradoc Evans was also a writer, Dr Evans got his PhD. in psychology from Duke University in the US, and was a frequent guest on radio and television. He once had a weekly radio show on the BBC. A passionate flier, and former pilot in the RAF, he also edited a yearly pilot's diary of rural airfields in Great Britain.
