DON’T PANIC!

As we continue to wonder about the best uses of social media and such, it’s interesting to check out what author Douglas Adams, the author of the stupendously successful Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy phenomenon, had to say about the Internet back in 1999:

Here’s an excerpt:

I suppose earlier generations had to sit through all this huffing and puffing with the invention of television, the phone, cinema, radio, the car, the bicycle, printing, the wheel and so on, but you would think we would learn the way these things work, which is this:

1) everything that’s already in the world when you’re born is just normal;

2) anything that gets invented between then and before you turn thirty is incredibly exciting and creative and with any luck you can make a career out of it;

3) anything that gets invented after you’re thirty is against the natural order of things and the beginning of the end of civilisation as we know it until it’s been around for about ten years when it gradually turns out to be alright really.

Someone linked to this on either FriendFeed or Twitter a few days ago - I forget who exactly. At any rate, it’s good enough to share. Plus, I hadn’t realized that Douglas Adams had this website, which is cool.

The full text of Adams’s Internet article is here.

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