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...
Not surprisingly, the announcement of Donald Trump's appointment of Elon Musk as Minister for Government Efficiency has unleashed passions, leading to incomprehension and criticism....
1994: the Thery report on "information highways"
The year is 1994. The world was beginning to whisper the word Internet, Al Gore was dreaming of “global...
For several years a growing number of companies have been using intrapreneurship as a tool for motivation and commitment.
Allowing employees to build their "...
Corporate silos are the enemies of collaboration, knowledge transfer, problem solving and innovation, contribute to its complication and undermine engagement and sense of belonging....
In these times when under pressure from customers, competitors, technological innovation and even employees, the businesses must reinvent themselves, it is tempting to look...