Recommended Reading: Radiohead's 'OK Computer' predicted the future
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The Radiohead Prophesies:
How 'OK Computer'
Predicted the Future
Stuart Berman,
Pitchfork
Pitchfork is celebrating the 20th anniversary of Radiohead's OK Computer this week, including a pretty interesting look at how Thom Yorke imagined the future in 1997. Released at a time when the internet was still a new thing, the album's content ties in directly to 2017. As Berman notes, "OK Computer is really more like the first draft for a never-filmed pilot episode of Black Mirror."
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