Radiohead didn’t predict the future—they just paid attention.
This Episode is a deep dive into how OK Computer was never just an album, but a premonition. A warning. A status update we ignored.
Through a blend of storytelling, history, and eerie parallels, we explore how a 1997 album captured the creeping unease of a world being swallowed by technology—from corporate surveillance to algorithmic control to the silent loss of human agency.
Was OK Computer just an ambitious rock record? Or was it a glimpse into a future we were already hurtling toward?
Let’s find out together.
🎵 Featuring: The evolution of tech, capitalism’s mutation, AI’s rise, and the unseen forces that built the digital throne.
Further Exploration:
- “Exit Music: The Radiohead Story” by Mac Randall (2000)
- “Radiohead’s OK Computer: An Oral History” by Rolling Stone (2017)
- “The Age of Surveillance Capitalism” by Shoshana Zuboff (2019)
- “The Big Nine: How the Tech Titans and Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity” by Amy Webb (2019)
- "The Birth of The Web" CERN
- “The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires” by Tim Wu (2010)
- “Why the Future Doesn't Need Us” by Bill Joy, Wired Magazine (2000)
- "Tim Berners-Lee on 30 years of the World Wide Web: We can get the web we want." The Guardian (2019)
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