Revealed how Hitchhiker’s Guide author predicted rise of ebooks 30 years ago

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In unseen notes to be published in a new book, Douglas Adams foresaw the success of a host of technology we now take for grantedDouglas Adams created the most famous ebook reader – The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – almost 30 years before the first Kindle was released, but he didn’t restrict his ideas to his science fiction.In the late 1990s, at least a decade before Amazon’s e-reader first came on to the market in 2007, the author and humorist made a series of notes uncannily predicting the rise of electronic books. Continue reading...

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