The Oscar-winning actor has made the latest in a series of references to the Nirvana frontman and the technological advances he didn’t live to see
‘It’s the most wonderful thing to watch my little blue spot walking down the street’ … Kurt Cobain, performing with Nirvana in 1993, and Helen Mirren.‘It’s the most wonderful thing to watch my little blue spot walking down the street’ … Kurt Cobain, performing with Nirvana in 1993, and Helen Mirren.has lamented that Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain did not live long enough to be able to experience the excitement of tracking his location on his phone.
The actor has frequently referenced Cobain in the past when discussing the interface of technology and ageing. In 2014, she told, “Look at Kurt Cobain – he hardly even saw a computer! The digital stuff that’s going on is so exciting. I’m just so curious about what happens next.”, “I was thinking about Kurt Cobain the other day and he died without knowing the internet, and I’m totally blown away by that.
However, the sentiments Mirren expressed this week to Lebedev – whose podcast focuses on “longevity, neuroscience, biohacking, and psychedelics” – were less cheerful. “From this point on,” Mirren predicted, “however long humanity survives, it will be a world of technology. And I’m so grateful that I was of a generation that knew the world before technology. And you know we will die out eventually.”Ageing in the public eye, reflected Mirren, is “kind of OK” but “it’s not brilliant”.
A year before Cobain died, Nirvana recorded their Unplugged in New York set for MTV, which further popularised the band beyond their core grunge fanbase. Afrom the early 1990s shows Cobain grinning broadly while talking on a brick-like mobile phone, suggesting he might well have been enthusiastic about Google Maps.
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