e42 – Douglas Adams and the Mac
Jul 16, 2016•1 hr 9 min
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Episode description
Douglas Adams is best known as the author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, but he was also a huge fan of the Macintosh. We discuss his many Macs, interactive fiction, and his extremely astute vision of the future of technology, both fictional and real.
Followup Douglas Adams“I love deadlines, I love the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.”
- Wikipedia entry
- Official website
- Hitchhiker's Guide "Trilogy"
- The Salmon of Doubt
- "Mankind as sickly as a parrot"
- Adams' Macs
- Starship Titanic (1998)
- "Frank the Vandal" (on HyperCard)
- "Guide to the Macintosh"
- AppleMasters
- Adams on Windows 95
I wrote an ad for Apple Computer: 'Macintosh - We might not get everything right, but at least we knew the century was going to end.'
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