Editing OK Computer (section)

==Title==
The title ''OK Computer'' is taken from the 1978 radio series [[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (radio series)|''Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'']], in which the character [[Zaphod Beeblebrox]] speaks the phrase "Okay, computer, I want full manual control now." The members of Radiohead listened to the series on the bus during their 1996 tour and Yorke made a note of the phrase.<ref name="Rhapsody in Gloom">{{citation|last=Greene|first=Andy|title=Radiohead's rhapsody in gloom: ''OK Computer'' 20 years later|date=31 May 2017|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/exclusive-thom-yorke-and-radiohead-on-ok-computer-w484570|magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170531145331/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/exclusive-thom-yorke-and-radiohead-on-ok-computer-w484570|archive-date=31 May 2017|url-status=live}}</ref> "OK Computer" became a working title for "Palo Alto", a B-side for the single "No Surprises".{{sfn|Footman|2007|pp=36–37}} The title stuck with the band; according to Jonny Greenwood, it "started attaching itself and creating all these weird resonances with what we were trying to do".<ref name="SAKAMOTO"/>

Yorke said the title "refers to embracing the future, it refers to being terrified of the future, of our future, of everyone else's. It's to do with standing in a room where all these appliances are going off and all these machines and computers and so on&nbsp;... and the sound it makes."{{sfn|Clarke|2010|p=124}} He described the title as "a really resigned, terrified phrase", to him similar to the [[Coca-Cola]] advertisement "[[I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing (In Perfect Harmony)|I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing]]".<ref name="SAKAMOTO"/> ''[[Wired (magazine)|Wired]]'' writer Leander Kahney suggests that it is an homage to Macintosh computers, as the Mac's [[speech recognition]] software responds to the command "OK computer" as an alternative to clicking the "OK" button.<ref>{{citation
 |first       = Leander
 |last        = Kahney
 |title       = He Writes the Songs: Mac Songs
 |url         = https://www.wired.com/gadgets/mac/commentary/cultofmac/2002/02/50161
 |date        = 1 February 2002
|magazine    = [[Wired (magazine)|Wired]]
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20120413184727/http://www.wired.com/gadgets/mac/commentary/cultofmac/2002/02/50161
 |archive-date = 13 April 2012
|url-status     = dead
}}</ref> Other titles considered were ''Ones and Zeroes''—a reference to the [[binary numeral system]]—and ''Your Home May Be at Risk If You Do Not Keep Up Payments''.{{sfn|Footman|2007|pp=36–37}}