That's what I had to write about because that's what was going on, which in itself instilled a kind of loneliness and disconnection." Everything I was writing was actually a way of trying to reconnect with other human beings when you're always in transit. But I was using the terminology of technology to express it. "The paranoia I felt at the time was much more related to how people related to each other. "OK, computer," responds the president of the galaxy Zaphod Beeblebrox, "I want full manual control now." The incident is an important one in the narrative as it marks the point when humans saved themselves by reclaiming control from machines, and Thom Yorke noted the phrase. Halfway through the story, a spaceship computer declares that it's incapable of fending off incoming missiles. While touring for The Bends, the band killed time in the bus by listening to an audio version of Douglas Adams' classic 1979 sci-fi-comedy novel.
The OK Computer title also came from A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
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