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...
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...
1°) Who is the author?
Frank Herbert is an American science fiction writer, mainly known for Dune, a saga that combines politics, ecology, philosophy and power struggles.
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