8-Bit Radiohead
Thu, 24 May 2012
These full length renditions are incredibly well done. First up is OK Computer…
And then Kid A…
These full length renditions are incredibly well done. First up is OK Computer…
And then Kid A…
Back in 1993, Douglas Adams recorded this soundbite for his then-publisher, retracing the origins of books and an almost prophetic description of their evolution to e-books.
Below is a submitted animation for a competition run by the Literary Platform to design a motion graphic to accompany this soundbite. Check it.
Seven years ago this week, David Foster Wallace argued that βlearning how to think really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think.β Yet in an age of ceaseless sensationalism, pseudoscience, and a relentless race for shortcuts, quick answers, and silver bullets, knowing what to think seems increasingly challenging.
Calls for more big ideas in SF are generally a political cri de coeur. We might equally imagine a similar essay in the context of mid-sixties Soviet fiction, calling for more fiction about tractors and breakthroughs in agricultural genomics.