The Fear Issue

Think Pieces

j.g. ballard, predicted social media in i-D 27 years ago

Our ever-growing obsession with documenting and curating every aspect of our lives online was something predicted on the very pages of i-D by esteemed and controversial cyberpunk author J. G. Ballard in The Fear Issue, No. 53, November 1987.
Ryan White
6.12.14
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