Tag: Virtual reality
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The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Future
I’ve been listening to Douglas Adams at the BBC which has clips from various series he was involved with, and it pointed out how much of a futurist and technologist he was (although one that realised the down side of technology – as he quotes Bran Ferren “”Technology is a word that describes something that…
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John Carpenter – Night
Beautiful bit of tech-noir with an Oculus Rift / Virtual Reality retrofuturist theme, this video for John Carpenter’s Night is wonderfully moody. If you don’t know about Lost Themes, his original album of themes without a film created with his son Cody and Daniel Davies then you need to check it out ASAP. (video via…
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Cyberia & Information Superhighway 1995
I think we forget how much the Internets were a new novel thing in the past – namely 1994-1995. I recorded this on one of my old VHS tapes – a report from After 5 (no idea which channel, London based probably a ITV franchise) which covers this new ‘Information Superhighway’ (more of a Data…