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- zip22, on 10/12/2007, -1/+36isn't the chick at exactly 2 minutes naked?
- LarianLeQuella, on 10/12/2007, -1/+30I highly recoment you all pick up "The Salmon of Doubt" and read it. It's a collection of random stuff (personal notes, speeches, etc.) that they collected after his death from all his computers. Great stuff. The man was truly brilliant.
- JHawk24821, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16...by amazing coincidence, yes, she is.
- ThinkBox, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15It's kinda like a VideoWikipedia
- jchalmer85, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13In Salmon of Doubt, he complains about the amount of wires he has to use to connect his various devices. He also complains about a lack of standardized power for devices, (12v, like in cars) and he notes how much fun and how effective it was to use a handheld device for data entry and management, and what the world would be like if we could access all of it's information seamlessly.
In a sense, he went on to predict the advent of such things as bluetooth, the explosion of cellular phones, PDA's, UMPC's and things like WiFi. He was also a noted fan of all apple hardware.
I sometimes wonder if he'd actually seen the future and came back, and was trying to make the rest of the world understand what it might be like some day.
May he rest in peace. - FrankieB078, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12I admit its awfully strange seeing a video that envisioned the internet, with a video like display, on Google Video. Very nostalgic...
- danieldrehmer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12"He was also a noted fan of all apple hardware."
He was a typical digg user: atheist, techie, apple user, sarcastic and a geek in every sense. He was also a friend of Richard Dawkins. - ThinkBox, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12Nice narrative. Entertaining, witty, and if anywhere here if familiar with Adam's writings, it's obvious why he would be so interesting in this idea.
I wish the audio was better. - joeshlub, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9The salmon of doubt is amazing, but it's worth mentioning that it also includes part of an unfinished novel he was writing, not just the collection of other notes.
- danieldrehmer, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Douglas Adams.... Please, come back!
- Kronos6948, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Wow...no one noticed that Tom Baker (the most famous Doctor Who) was in this?
- honkaform, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8I'd buy one.
- stacky, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6'The England cricket team is in deep trouble...'
My God, he *did* predict the future...... - vudicarus, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7surprisingly, *****'s uploaded a lot of cool scientific documentaries like stephen hawkin's universe among others.
- ThinkBox, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Well, while the HGTTG might be like that... it wasn't really used that way a ton in the book, and it wasn't described like so. It would be more like Wikipedia, especially since I can't think of the last time I visited Wiki and didn't click on 4 or 5 links to further my understanding of the article.
- djNullSpace, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6He's dead, Jim.
- aepyx, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7That was awesome. Man.. I'm supposed to be studying for my final.
- stacky, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I believe they are called Little Dongly Things
- frakilk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4This is what the Semantic Web will make easier. A great article if you have some spare time http://novaspivack.typepad.com/nova_spivacks_weblog/2006/11/minding_the_pla.html
- mrjames, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I completely agree, it's exactly what I was thinking when he said 'agent' - reminded me of the 'information agent' SW idea.
- lexypher, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4As well as one of his most active proponents in the realm of Aggressive Atheism and biological evolution.
I wonder if there's a correlation between the fundies comeback on these points and DNA's untimely demise.
I haven't watched it yet, but I want TVs last message to humans to be a technical difficulties screen with "We apologize for the inconvenience" on it. - jwalk81980, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Wow. Douglas Adams invented Ask Jeeves. (Tom, the software agent)
- booc0mtaco, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3There are types like Adams who can prevent their minds from saying, "it works well enough now, so why change it". He was thinking of ways to solve a common problem people have, and continue to have today; what is that thing?
The real credit goes to Vannevar bush, who had a notion for this type of info. retrieval even before transistors and television. Adams is surely due to receive some posthumous credit as well; he had a unique and creative mind - xtmno3, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3We only have laws to blame for that. If you want the best you can get currently for print in digital form, check out: http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page
Not the best laid out side in the world, but tons of useful information. - felchdonkey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3So basically, several years before the web itself was invented, he was already predicting Web 3.0...
- stacky, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Thank god I'm on the neighbour's internet...
Unprotected Wi-Fi FTW - Ruckgesicht, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The internet, video games... It really is all there. It showed up very different than they projected, but I think its actually far better than most of that. That's the best part of it all.
- aywwts4, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Except for the all literature and all video digitalized thing.
Sort of waiting on that one. - felchdonkey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2DNA often said that his favorite book that he wrote was "Last Chance to See." He did a CD-ROM of it two years later, in 1992, and there's still a great web site devoted to the project: http://tdv.com/lastchance/
- spyrochaete, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The unfinished novel was definitely the low point of Salmon. The high point, for me, was the essay about the personal diving engine and his encounter with a manta ray.
What a nice man and an awesome writer. RIP - thecha, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@Kronos6948 I did... But you did first...
- omnipotent, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1(I can't believe that spell check actually passes pr0n)
But yeah, good video, worth watching if you are interested. Otherwise I could see how it *might* be boring.
It's interesting to see some of those ideas really starting to explode into huge movements within the past couple years. - jim7out, on 05/05/2008, -0/+1good video
http://vends.vistavideos.info - booc0mtaco, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1and for those wanting a nice dictionary feature like that mentioned (mac only)... hold down command, control, and d, then hover over a word, and voilá (cocoa apps only)
- T3hl33tg33k, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The end of the video reminds me of the book Otherland, and I think the concept is awesome.
- realunderdog, on 01/02/2009, -0/+1Don't Panic!
- cvrefugee, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Remember, use two fingers to go forward...or some crap like that. Power Glove!
- Depthfunction, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1And thus, a generation was afflicted with ADD. . .
- cptn_cardboard, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Just finished watching it, and the best part was what they thought virtual reality would be like in the future (2005.)
Ill give you a hint, have you ever seen hackers? - rhinopig, on 10/12/2007, -4/+4Internets is teh futuar.
(more specifically, the concept of hyperlinks is a very powerful one.) - warragul, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0And it's only 296Megs!
There goes my Pr0n browsing for the evening...
(Good grief! The spellchecker passed Pr0n!) - gianlucaneri, on 04/09/2009, -0/+0Maybe you'll like it. Here's a new free book, a tribute to Douglas Adams: http://digg.com/d1nuCQ. It's funny. It's free. Why not spread the word?
- Shorties, on 10/12/2007, -4/+4You mean like a Hitchhikers Guide on a computer...hmm I wonder why he thought this would be the future...
- rhettnyedotorg, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11990 ftw
- meepus, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1The internets were real in 1990. Fool.
- Kboruff, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0Putting in a warning about a naked chick would help those that don't want to get fired. It's good, but naked ladies make managers angry.
- Sector7g, on 10/12/2007, -7/+2Dug for the hilarious part "What are those kids doing? Playing a computer game? No no they are much too old for that!" R.O.F.L. as I myself just got done playing one.....
- freshd, on 10/12/2007, -11/+0cliffs notes version please?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -14/+1Stopped watching after I saw the counter that said 49 mins.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -19/+2Alternate title: "Inside look on how the tubes were made"
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