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Geekender Gallery: Top 10 Tech Tunes

Summary: For your weekend listening pleasure: ten songs about technology. Enjoy!

Rupert Goodwins

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Steve Hillage: And Not Or

Ex-Gong guitarist Steve Hillage is the epitome of the tech-obsessed hippy — he even recorded under the name of System 7, the Macintosh OS of the time. This song is named after BASIC Boolean operators, and comes from an album — For To Next — named after BASIC keywords. It contains, as far as we're aware, no actual reference to technology beyond a hint that Hillage tried his hand at writing a game of noughts and crosses in AppleBASIC.

Best Listened To While: Attempting to get 3G access on your solar-powered laptop from a field in Cornwall.

 

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Rupert started off as a nerdy lad expecting to be an electronics engineer, but having tried it for a while discovered that journalism was more fun. He ended up on PC Magazine in the early '90s, before that evolved into ZDNet UK - and Rupert evolved with them into an online journalist.

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  • I Dream of Wires

    Surprised Gary Numan's 'I Dream of Wires' didn't get in there, Rupert.

    Best listened to while soldering together a breadboard amp design from Electronics Weekly.
    Manek Dubash
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