# Sci-Fi Author J.G. Ballard Predicts the Rise of Social Media (1977) | Open Culture - Host: [openculture.com](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/hosts/openculture.com/) - Saved: May 13, 2024 (2024-05-14T01:20:29Z) - Record: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/0852bae19499/ - JSON: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/0852bae19499.json ## What Jamie wrote Very prescient. ## Facts - Kind: [Page](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/kinds/page/) ## Appears in - [WT288: Weekly Thing 288 / Hackerverse, Symbolica, Curators](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/288/), Briefly ## Same host - [Why the Short-Lived Calvin and Hobbes Is Still One of the Most Beloved & Influential Comic Strips | Open Culture](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/173647bc7c33/) (openculture.com, April 18, 2024) - [The Medieval Masterpiece, the Book of Kells, Is Now Digitized and Available Online | Open Culture](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/0cfd24c660e0/) (openculture.com, October 10, 2024) - [Twin Peaks Actually Explained: A 4-Hour Video Essay Demystifies It All | Open Culture](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/3ff5990bd276/) (openculture.com, October 10, 2024) ## Saved the same week - [Symbolica](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/0b8785c50cd0/) (symbolica.io, May 13, 2024) - [Backward Walking Is the Best Workout You're Not Doing | TIME](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/0313ea317319/) (time.com, May 13, 2024) - [Hackers discover how to reprogram NES Tetris from within the game | Ars Technica](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/47f5d4cbce28/) (arstechnica.com, May 13, 2024) - [Immersive Math](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/e94484e01e1d/) (immersivemath.com, May 13, 2024) - [Manifesto for a Humane Web](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/31d1c4a86ae1/) (humanewebmanifesto.com, May 13, 2024) ## Elsewhere - Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.openculture.com/2016/03/j-g-ballard-predicted-the-rise-of-social-media-and-youtube-celebrity-in-1977.html