Weekend Reading
Writing worth reading - 2nd/3rd September 2023
“Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad. Speak your truth – even when your voice shakes.”
Charlie Brooker on satirising TV in Black Mirror: ‘If it wasn’t on Netflix, we’d be sued’ by Horatia Harrod
“This is the way Brooker’s brain works, he tells me on a Zoom call from his home in Ealing, west London. “I can’t look at any situation without immediately seeing the public information film version playing in my head. If kids are bouncing around on a trampoline, I’m thinking: well, one of them’s about to smash his knee through the other one’s nose. So you have to laugh at that, otherwise it’s going to drive you mad…”
Kevin Kelly Explores ‘In the Year 2525’, Tech, Longevity, and Advice for Living by Steve Sanduski
“Back in 1969, one-hit wonders Zager and Evans reached the top of the Billboard Hot 100 with In the Year 2525. We use the provocative, playful, and, in some cases, quite prophetic questions raised in that song to dive into a wide-ranging conversation about technology, longevity, the future, and the meaning of life…”
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Thursday 14th September — Manchester — details and signup here.
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