Before he died in 2001, the 5 books had between them sold more than 15 million copies. The Hitchhiker’s Guide began life as a BBC radio comedy in 1978, a year before the first book was published. As ecosystems are destroyed to make way for roads, artificial intelligence (AI) threatens to get seriously unruly and the Universe continually reveals it’s a lot more complicated than we thought, Adams’s creation and its deadpan surreality never seem to fade. Yet the themes of the book have hardly dated. We’ve since replaced digital watches with smartphones and virtual assistants, and we rarely describe them as “neat”. Astonishingly, it is 40 years since Douglas Adams published The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy.
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