This wonderful clip of Douglas Adams and Tom Baker predicted AI assistants and the internet way back in 1990

When the BBC documentary Hyperland was shown on the BBC back in 1990, the public World Wide Web was still a year away from launching. Tim Berners-Lee’s first browser didn’t appear until 1991. Which makes this clip all the more astonishing and prophetic. The ‘fantasy documentary’ was written by Douglas Adams, author of The Hitchhikers […] The post This wonderful clip of Douglas Adams and Tom Baker predicted AI assistants and the internet way back in 1990 appeared first on The Poke .

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