Hey Doug (RIP), Me from 19 years in the future, you're still relevant & spot on. The Vogons are still running the planet & nothing has change. Miss you still to this day.

Date of the conference was April 9-13, 2001. Merely one month later Adams died. RIP, the world misses you

Chunks of this speech and much, much more were retrieved from Douglas’s hard drives after his untimely death, and published in “The Salmon of Doubt”. He really was a great thinker.

@christinekaye6393

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much for this info. I often wish for a transcription of his lectures/speeches. Even if it's not there in its entirety, I would enjoy being able to read and ponder his thoughts.

@Canalcoholic

3 жыл бұрын

@@christinekaye6393 If you use Audible, or sign up for the free trial, I would highly recommend the audiobook. It is read by Arthur Dent (sorry, Simon Jones) with an introduction by Stephen Fry and eulogy from Richard Dawkins.

“He knows this is wrong, and another book is in the works to fix that.” Oh, the feels

The bottom up thing hasn't really worked because those at the bottom are programmed by those at the top. As someone commented in this thread - the Vogons are still running everything.

He’s complaining about things that aren’t problems anymore 🤣 a time travel classic right here !!! Thank you for this !!

@gwasgray9309

Жыл бұрын

He identified the problems that needed to be fixed!

@diskgrinder

Жыл бұрын

Similarly all science works this way

I'd love to know his opinion on the world now. Died far too soon.

In less than an hour, he just invented: USB-C Flight Finder KZread Spotify Amazon Audible Google Maps Social Media Tender Reddit Wait till you see your very lecture on KZread Mr @DouglasAdams ... RIP

@chrisdaignault9845

9 ай бұрын

Also Interac, and machine learning.

Listening to him I am reminded how much we could profit from his smarts if he were still around. So sad he had to leave so early (I am sure he would agree with that)

Wow, Douglas Adams at THE ESC! 👏 The European Song Contest! He is the best speaker that ever appeared there for sure! 😉👍

Wow .. the EU really did do something right: force all companies to standardise the power supply cables. We have nearly forgotten is was a problem .. except for apple reminding us periodically that they have another cable.

@rsr789

8 ай бұрын

I will say that at least Apple was trying to make everyone use 1 cable type, FireWire (IEEE 1394), which was WAY faster in it's different forms than the equivalent USB standard at that time. Hell, it's considered that it was only finally surpassed / superseded by Thunderbolt / USB 3.0! Around the time this video was made, FireWire 800 was released, which had speeds of up to 400 MB/s, on connections running up to 330 ft.... compare that to the equivalent USB 2.0 available at the same time, running at a max 480 Mbit/s (theoretical max 53 MB/s), so about 1/10th of the speed.

@saschamayer4050

7 ай бұрын

The hardware of the power cables is standardized. The software isn't. 😉 They always find a loophole or another way to make more money.

Poor Adams, I‘m always wondering what would have happend if he didn‘t go to the gym shortly after. You‘re damned if you and you‘re damned if you don‘t.

@StevenKellyBelly

3 жыл бұрын

he is objectively relevent even more than us today we are living through uncertain times and his philosophy is immeasurably urgent to what we are need to do today

Embedded Systems Conference....... ah.... yes.... I should have known he wouldn't be talking at the Eurovision Song Contest.

Starts at 3:41

Less than two months later, he'd be gone. Hard to believe. The fact that he died exercising to be healthy is the ultimate irony. Douglas would approve, If he didn't have to die for the punchline, that is.

Genius!!

Prescient, and optimistic. He didn’t get to see the shitshow we’ve turned it into.

... follow the free! ... still rings true to me ...

He got so many things right, and I'd argue the things he didn't as of now, will soon be true. While we have seen companies use the internet to create a monopoly, the ease with which people can now reach thousands and millions is so much easier.

@saschamayer4050

7 ай бұрын

Not people, ad companies and multicorporate enterprises.

Personally its a bad thing that Douglas Adams makes so much fuss about Amazon, as these corporate parasites pay NO tax certainly in the UK. I always endeavour to shop anywhere else especially on my local high street.

@jcthefluteman

2 жыл бұрын

Sure, but this was 2001 remember. Amazon was nothing like what it has become

@barrycross2585

2 жыл бұрын

Since 2001 Amazon is an even bigger global parasite. It's becoming something akin to the corporations that Douglas Adams joked about in Hitchhikers Guide.Such as Megedodo Publications, or Infinidim Enterprises.

@Goalsplus

9 ай бұрын

​@jcthefluteman yeah, one time they only sold books. And were very useful for second hand books you couldn't find locally.

@paulmcgreevy3011

8 ай бұрын

The owners of your high street shops shop on Amazon

@timhill7177

Ай бұрын

​@paulmcgreevy3011 Yes. Also, evidently your mother had sex with at least one idiot. Does that make all the intelligent people she may have slept with equally as stupid as your father? No.

And so USB-C was born

@WickyWithBlender

3 жыл бұрын

Only took around 15 years

@saschamayer4050

7 ай бұрын

And still isn't compatible with everything. 😅

Real intelligent ironic

Douglas went to the wrong place, pity he didn't have his Hitchhikers Guide with him, or perhaps he did.

@davidlamb7524

10 ай бұрын

He has arrived at the Restaurant at the End of the Universe.

.... Alan T. had got it rite from the out-set ...

Wait, wait, wait.... Amazon sells books? 😜

The bubble. March of ‘78... my conception.... this year however; I lost the first part of my collegiate savings. F bubbles

so outdated

@assaqwwq

4 жыл бұрын

He casually mentioned tesla cars almost 20 years ago. And websites still don't have competitor or even user information. Finding Solaris on the net is still a bitch.

@assaqwwq

4 жыл бұрын

And most importantly, atat still sucks.

@StevenKellyBelly

3 жыл бұрын

how can you say that without being sarcastic dude

@rampageclover9788

Жыл бұрын

Thoroughly ignorant statement. He saw where the train was going long before an insignificant ant like you

@diskgrinder

Жыл бұрын

So is most anything from 20 years ago. You’ve added nothing. Wasted electrons

jeesus the first guy completely sucked the life out of the room. what a bore.