http://seandodson.wordpress.com/2008/03/07/jg-ballard-the-oracle-of-shepperton/ A sort of online sketchbook, scrapbook and portfolio of the writer and journalist Sean Dodson Sun, 15 Nov 2009 04:35:44 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://seandodson.wordpress.com/2008/03/07/jg-ballard-the-oracle-of-shepperton/#comment-222 seandodson Fri, 07 Mar 2008 12:24:01 +0000 http://seandodson.wordpress.com/2008/03/07/jg-ballard-the-oracle-of-shepperton/#comment-222 Ballard might be the most precient author of th 21st century, but not everything he foresees is yet to make as much impact as YouTube, which shows at least 100m videos a day. His excellent collection of stories <a href="http://uk.geocities.com/cleanskies/ballardia/gallverm.htm" rel="nofollow">Vermillion Sands</a> features singing plants, mood-sensitive houses and automated poetry machines, all of which seem less plausible. Although with his record, would you rule anything out?. Ballard might be the most precient author of th 21st century, but not everything he foresees is yet to make as much impact as YouTube, which shows at least 100m videos a day. His excellent collection of stories Vermillion Sands features singing plants, mood-sensitive houses and automated poetry machines, all of which seem less plausible. Although with his record, would you rule anything out?.

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