Hey, it's Brian. Today I'm doing things a little differently and bringing you a preview

of a new audiobook I think you'll really like. It's called Douglas Adams, The Ends of the Earth,

and it celebrates the wit and wisdom of the legendary science fiction author of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

and Dirk Gentley's Holistic Detective

Agency. Douglas Adams was someone who thought deeply about the biggest problems in the world,

from the internet to artificial intelligence to space exploration, politics, and conservation.

He was a sharp critic and a profoundly disruptive thinker of the way we do things,

just like us here at Skeptoid. We've often covered the many ways technology has been

shaped and shifted over time, so we think you'll enjoy hearing Adam's thoughts on tech

in this preview. It's a journey into the mind of a man who foresaw the technological age in all its

wonder and terror.

So here is the preview.

We hope you enjoy it as much as we did.

If you do, you can get Douglas Adams the ends of the earth now at Audible, Spotify, Pushkin.fm slash audiobooks, or wherever

audiobooks are sold.

Chapter 3. Everything is connected. The internet we didn't get.

The computer scientist Danny Hillis came up with a brilliant

definition of technology, which is technology is stuff that doesn't work yet. Now the interesting

thing is everything we've invented was at some point technology. I mean, a chair was technology before we'd figured it out.

Now we know what a chair is, but before we did, you know, people trying to figure out,

well, how many legs should it have?

How high should it be?

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