"He is negotiating with computer wizards in California to produce a game called Battle Towels."... "The same computer firm has produced the technology to make a hitch-hiker's guide-come-true. A 15-year project is under way to build a device more or less as Adams describes it. It will be about the size of a book and the user will be able to call up information from any data base in the world - for pleasure or as a tool.
Unlike Adams' model, this device will always tell the truth, either speaking to the user or throwing up a three-dimensional image on a screen.
Adams' role is a sort of stylistic adviser on how people want to receive the information, "but," says Adams, "I'm still not exactly certain what they mean."
From
Father of Beeblebrox, by Cushla Grace
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http://xkcd.com/548/
My oh my. Not only have you proven the "xkcd comic for every occasion" hypothesis but revealed an extraordinary coincidence. Or have you uncovered a conspiracy?
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