more retro future



"On the 12” there’s a spoken intro which has fun with the 70s-to-90s timeslip: “Now everyone’s a rocket man - as long as it’s served with a balsamic dressing".”

--interesting thoughts from Tom Ewing spinning off of this nostalgia-for-the-future/the-visions-I-had-have-faded-into-the-void-of-mass-public-indifference song, involving the talents of Jarvis Cocker and Phil Oakey, and released at the eve-of-the-21st-Century

also via Blues Lines Revisitedd, a piece on tech stagnation at the Atlantic -- The Jig Is Up: Time to Get Past Facebook and Invent a New Future written by Alexis Madrigal, check out also Tom E's thoughts on it