Pornography, violence and JG Ballard: High Rise, the 1970s' internet
The film High Rise is set in the 1970s and based on JG Ballard’s 1975 book. That’s roughly two decades before Tim Berners-Lee would “create” the web.
Heck, you were lucky then to have a colour TV, never mind a phone in your house. Yet, High Rise provides a vision of what was to come: the internet community.
That is, an …
18 Mar 2016