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Pick up a tablet (Android!), connect it to Wikipedia and google's Translate service, and you're a few steps closer to Douglas Adams' universe than he had the op
by charlieok 14y ago
Pick up a tablet (Android!), connect it to Wikipedia and google's Translate service, and you're a few steps closer to Douglas Adams' universe than he had the opportunity to see. Wikipedia launched just a few months before his death.
He actually started a project along similar lines:
http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/webhead/2005/05/galaxy_quest.html http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/webhead/2005/05/gal...
- 616c 14y agoHe had a good idea of what he wanted as well. http://www.h2g2.com/douglas_adams/ http://www.h2g2.com/douglas_adams/
- anonymous 14y agoEven Douglas Adams couldn't foresee The Deletionists - people erasing parts of an encyclopaedia with nearly infinite space, because they're not worth knowing about. Or the "I undid your edit, because I don't believe you're right and I have a username, while you don't"-ists. In a way, we surpassed his vision by a large margin, though I don't doubt he always knew we would.
- a1k0n 14y agoOne could argue the editor's paring down of Earth's entry in the Guide to "mostly harmless" is an instance of exactly the same thing.
- youngerdryas 14y agoActually he changed to "mostly harmless" from "harmless" if I remember correctly.