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.
Mozart in mirrorshades, Bach to the future
What was going on in the 1970s and 80s that Bach and Mozart became tangled up with technology and science fiction? I’ve got a theory. A key text in all of this is the 1985 cyberpunk story ‘Mozart in Mirrorshades’ by Bruce Sterling and Lewis Shiner, available in the genre-defining anthology Mirrorshades from 1986. Originally…
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