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Publication: The Tech, , Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Cambridge, MA
★★★★✩
Forest 404
Produced and directed by Becky Ripley
Written by Timothy X Atack
Starring Pearl Mackie, Tanya Moodie and Pippa Haywood
Available on BBC Sounds
Every now and then something will cross my path in the internet enough times that I check it out. Occasionally, I’ll enjoy it, and, very rarely, I will love it. The first episode of Forest 404 pulled me into the future world of wires and steel in which the story of the podcast unfurls.
The basic idea is this: after a data crash called ‘the Cataclysm,’ humankind carries on in a vast, mechanical,...