74. What Radiohead Knew - Tech Would Swallow Us Whole

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)

The With Jay Burke Show is a member of the Unfiltered Studios  https://www.unfpod.com/ Please be sure to Rate and Review this episode. Subscribe and Share

Visit me @jayburkeshow.podbean.com

Email me at: [e-mail] Twitter/Instagram: @jayburkeshow    TikTok: @jayburke17