BLOG POST: Something I needed to get out of my system about how Mozart and Bach kept popping up in conversations about computing and in sci-fi in the 1970s and 1980s.
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BLOG POST: Something I needed to get out of my system about how Mozart and Bach kept popping up in conversations about computing and in sci-fi in the 1970s and 1980s. If you can think of other examples of This Sort of Thing, let me know.
https://precastreinforced.co.uk/2026/05/04/mozart-in-mirrorshades-bach-to-the-future/
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BLOG POST: Something I needed to get out of my system about how Mozart and Bach kept popping up in conversations about computing and in sci-fi in the 1970s and 1980s. If you can think of other examples of This Sort of Thing, let me know.
https://precastreinforced.co.uk/2026/05/04/mozart-in-mirrorshades-bach-to-the-future/
@RayNewman Is "Godel, Escher, Bach" in the vein you had in mind?
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@RayNewman Is "Godel, Escher, Bach" in the vein you had in mind?
@perspectivet @RayNewman My thought too. I'd wondered if it influenced the trend, but given publication in 1979 seems part of the same syndrome.
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BLOG POST: Something I needed to get out of my system about how Mozart and Bach kept popping up in conversations about computing and in sci-fi in the 1970s and 1980s. If you can think of other examples of This Sort of Thing, let me know.
https://precastreinforced.co.uk/2026/05/04/mozart-in-mirrorshades-bach-to-the-future/
@RayNewman I would suspect that the connections also have to do with the idea that music and mathematics (and thus, computing) are deeply related - especially the kind of music Bach wrote.
My dad was a professor at Northwestern, teaching music theory and history in the 70's-80's. His intro music theory class counted as a math credit for students. (Who often thought his class would be easier than a "real" math class. It was not, of course.)
Anyway, there's more weight to the connection than just aesthetics.
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