About the author
Douglas Adams is best known for The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a science fiction work that combines absurdity and satire to question our relationship with the modern world.
Passionate about scientific and futuristic topics, he enjoyed mocking bureaucratic foibles and took a critical view of the promises of technological progress.
Historical and intellectual context
This quote comes from the context of the emergence of connected computing. In the 1990s, digital technologies left the laboratories and large businesses to reach the general public. Personal computers, email, and the first web browsers: the technological landscape...
Summary : Digital, social media and networks...businesses are looking for people mastering these new concepts and tools. But we need to be careful toward...
Summary : email causing organizational unwieldiness and information loss is nothing new. Businesses like ATOS decided to fix this issue once for all, using...
Sumary : many users say that the problem that enterprise social platforms is the risk of infobesity and informational noise. Reality is more complex....
Summary : businesses see social networks as possible channels for information leaks caused by negligence. What is right. But their retort, that is mainly...
Summary:Tomorrow's business will give people and their peculiar skills a good deal to increase overall performance. Creativity, problem solving, exception handling...everything that has nothing...