{"id":11397,"date":"2023-09-03T08:37:32","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T06:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/03\/revealed-how-hitchhikers-guide-author-predicted-rise-of-ebooks-30-years-ago\/"},"modified":"2023-09-03T08:37:32","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T06:37:32","slug":"revealed-how-hitchhikers-guide-author-predicted-rise-of-ebooks-30-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/03\/revealed-how-hitchhikers-guide-author-predicted-rise-of-ebooks-30-years-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"Revealed: how Hitchhiker\u2019s Guide author predicted rise of ebooks 30 years ago"},"content":{"rendered":"

In unseen notes to be published in a new book, Douglas Adams foresaw the success of a host of technology we now take for granted<\/p>\n

Douglas Adams created the most famous ebook reader \u2013 The Hitchhiker\u2019s Guide to the Galaxy<\/a><\/em> \u2013 almost 30 years before the first Kindle was released, but he didn\u2019t restrict his ideas to his science fiction.<\/p>\n

In the late 1990s, at least a decade before Amazon\u2019s e-reader first came on to the market in 2007, the author and humorist made a series of notes uncannily predicting the rise of electronic books.<\/p>\n

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\nIn unseen notes to be published in a new book, Douglas Adams foresaw the success of a host of technology we now take for granted
\nDouglas Adams created the most famous ebook reader \u2013 The Hitchhiker\u2019s Guide to the Galaxy \u2013 almost 30 years before the first Kindle was released, but he didn\u2019t restrict his ideas to his science fiction.
\nIn the late 1990s, at least a decade before Amazon\u2019s e-reader first came on to the market in 2007, the author and humorist made a series of notes uncannily predicting the rise of electronic books. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In unseen notes to be published in a new book, Douglas Adams foresaw the success of a host of technology we now take for granted Douglas Adams created the most famous ebook reader \u2013 The Hitchhiker\u2019s Guide to the Galaxy \u2013 almost 30 years before the first Kindle was released, but he didn\u2019t restrict his …<\/p>\n

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