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Tech has graduated from the Star Trek era to the Douglas Adams age (Interconnected)

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We seem to be moving from technology inspired by Star Trek to tech straight out of books by Douglas Adams? This is not my observation. I was on the podcast WB-40 this week, talking about crowdfunding, narrative hooks, and how to preserve a lightness of being. Here it is, WB-40 episode 288: Crowdfunding. After we were done recording, Lisa Riemers, one of the hosts, commented that my recent projects could have come straight out of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. She’s right! Now this tickles me. Because: The URL of this blog is interconnected.org - I’ve been blogging here since February 2000 - and it’s named for the project that originally occupied the homepage. That project’s strap line: Exploring the fundamental interconnectedness of all things. Which is from Douglas Adams’ Dirk Gently books. It’s a long-running association for me, it turns out. There’s a gag that technology is inspired by Star Trek. Tricorders are smartphones. Touch screen computing and voice computing are both

Tech has graduated from the Star Trek era to the Douglas Adams age 10.08, Wednesday 21 Feb 2024 Link to this post We seem to be moving from technology inspired by Star Trek to tech straight out of books by Douglas Adams? This is not my observation. I was on the podcast WB-40 this week, talking about crowdfunding, narrative hooks, and how to preserve a lightness of being. Here it is, WB-40 episode 288: Crowdfunding . After we were done recording, Lisa Riemers , one of the hosts, commented that my recent projects could have come straight out of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. She’s right!

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