<![CDATA[If you told me twenty five years ago that 2026 would feel like if douglas adams wrote cyberpunk i would think i’d be enjoying it more]]>If you told me twenty five years ago that 2026 would feel like if douglas adams wrote cyberpunk i would think i’d be enjoying it more

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/topic/254793ef-a14b-4bc1-a8b3-4b8f25feea9d/if-you-told-me-twenty-five-years-ago-that-2026-would-feel-like-if-douglas-adams-wrote-cyberpunk-i-would-think-i-d-be-enjoying-it-moreRSS for NodeSun, 11 Oct 2026 14:37:43 GMTMon, 28 Sep 2026 14:36:35 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to If you told me twenty five years ago that 2026 would feel like if douglas adams wrote cyberpunk i would think i’d be enjoying it more on Tue, 29 Sep 2026 16:34:12 GMT]]>@hannah Every morning I wake up feeling like a bowl of petunias.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://wandering.shop/users/mikemccaffrey/statuses/117355292432878744https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://wandering.shop/users/mikemccaffrey/statuses/117355292432878744Tue, 29 Sep 2026 16:34:12 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to If you told me twenty five years ago that 2026 would feel like if douglas adams wrote cyberpunk i would think i’d be enjoying it more on Tue, 29 Sep 2026 14:58:48 GMT]]>@hannah This is like that scene in Fight Club where dudes are awkwardly attempting to start fistfights with strangers.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.tulsa.ok.us/users/BalooUriza/statuses/117354917295789532https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.tulsa.ok.us/users/BalooUriza/statuses/117354917295789532Tue, 29 Sep 2026 14:58:48 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to If you told me twenty five years ago that 2026 would feel like if douglas adams wrote cyberpunk i would think i’d be enjoying it more on Tue, 29 Sep 2026 13:55:32 GMT]]>@stsp @mwop @Nickiquote @hannah it's okay, but it reads more like a Hitchhiker's fanfic than an actual Hitchhiker's novel.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://hostux.social/users/jtwcornell91/statuses/117354668508201061https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://hostux.social/users/jtwcornell91/statuses/117354668508201061Tue, 29 Sep 2026 13:55:32 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to If you told me twenty five years ago that 2026 would feel like if douglas adams wrote cyberpunk i would think i’d be enjoying it more on Tue, 29 Sep 2026 03:11:16 GMT]]>@hannah

Or not even avant la lettre, come to think of it.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/jerrej/statuses/117352135164153305https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/jerrej/statuses/117352135164153305Tue, 29 Sep 2026 03:11:16 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to If you told me twenty five years ago that 2026 would feel like if douglas adams wrote cyberpunk i would think i’d be enjoying it more on Mon, 28 Sep 2026 21:42:29 GMT]]>@hannah Where's a Terry Pratchett cyberpunk dystopian future when you need one?

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mathstodon.xyz/users/ids1024/statuses/117350842315059434https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mathstodon.xyz/users/ids1024/statuses/117350842315059434Mon, 28 Sep 2026 21:42:29 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to If you told me twenty five years ago that 2026 would feel like if douglas adams wrote cyberpunk i would think i’d be enjoying it more on Mon, 28 Sep 2026 19:29:28 GMT]]>@hannah I'd have made clear it's more like his infocom games than his books though... 😔 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bureaucracy_(video_game)

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/JackTLadd/statuses/117350319317965115https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/JackTLadd/statuses/117350319317965115Mon, 28 Sep 2026 19:29:28 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to If you told me twenty five years ago that 2026 would feel like if douglas adams wrote cyberpunk i would think i’d be enjoying it more on Mon, 28 Sep 2026 19:25:16 GMT]]>@mwop @Nickiquote @hannah I read it after reading all the Adams ones in sequence. It is not bad, I enjoyed it.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://bsd.network/users/stsp/statuses/117350302763194599https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://bsd.network/users/stsp/statuses/117350302763194599Mon, 28 Sep 2026 19:25:16 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to If you told me twenty five years ago that 2026 would feel like if douglas adams wrote cyberpunk i would think i’d be enjoying it more on Mon, 28 Sep 2026 19:17:14 GMT]]>@doctroid @hannah "I'm afraid you're going to have to accept it," said Mr. Prosser, gripping his fur hat and rolling it round the top of his head; "this data center has got to be built and it's going to be built!"
"First I've heard of it," said Arthur, "why's it got to be built?"
Mr. Prosser shook his finger at him for a bit, then stopped and put it away again.
"What do you mean, why's it got to be built?" he said. "It's a data center. You've got to build data centers."

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/JamesWidman/statuses/117350271171205005https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/JamesWidman/statuses/117350271171205005Mon, 28 Sep 2026 19:17:14 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to If you told me twenty five years ago that 2026 would feel like if douglas adams wrote cyberpunk i would think i’d be enjoying it more on Mon, 28 Sep 2026 19:07:24 GMT]]>@hannah Sorry, what? I can't hear you under this flaming dumpster the Vogon ship dropped on me.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/linuxandyarn/statuses/117350232514343553https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/linuxandyarn/statuses/117350232514343553Mon, 28 Sep 2026 19:07:24 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to If you told me twenty five years ago that 2026 would feel like if douglas adams wrote cyberpunk i would think i’d be enjoying it more on Mon, 28 Sep 2026 18:21:21 GMT]]>@hannah not even half an hour ago I was mentioning to a student the B Ark passage and how mathematicians, programmers and engineers are being treated just like the telephone sanitizers: if those people delegate their thinking and learning to the AI, we'll be stuck with a population who cannot maintain and develop technology

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://bertha.social/users/eltonfc/statuses/117350051473184162https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://bertha.social/users/eltonfc/statuses/117350051473184162Mon, 28 Sep 2026 18:21:21 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to If you told me twenty five years ago that 2026 would feel like if douglas adams wrote cyberpunk i would think i’d be enjoying it more on Mon, 28 Sep 2026 18:20:02 GMT]]>@Nickiquote @hannah I have refused to read that one. I purchased it when it came out in a fit of excitement, but then the realization sunk in that it wasn't Adams... And that was a non-starter.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://phpc.social/users/mwop/statuses/117350046293255323https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://phpc.social/users/mwop/statuses/117350046293255323Mon, 28 Sep 2026 18:20:02 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to If you told me twenty five years ago that 2026 would feel like if douglas adams wrote cyberpunk i would think i’d be enjoying it more on Mon, 28 Sep 2026 17:16:33 GMT]]>@mwop @hannah My headcanon is that there is a happy ending to come in the book Douglas didn’t get round to writing, which is not the book Eoin Colfer wrote.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mstdn.social/users/Nickiquote/statuses/117349796645041616https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mstdn.social/users/Nickiquote/statuses/117349796645041616Mon, 28 Sep 2026 17:16:33 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to If you told me twenty five years ago that 2026 would feel like if douglas adams wrote cyberpunk i would think i’d be enjoying it more on Mon, 28 Sep 2026 17:10:15 GMT]]>@hannah

DNA did write that. What do you mean? For example, the radio scripts are full of cyberpunk avant la lettre.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/jerrej/statuses/117349771885646046https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/jerrej/statuses/117349771885646046Mon, 28 Sep 2026 17:10:15 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to If you told me twenty five years ago that 2026 would feel like if douglas adams wrote cyberpunk i would think i’d be enjoying it more on Mon, 28 Sep 2026 17:04:38 GMT]]>@hannah

Politicians forgot to put lemon juice in their brain

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mamot.fr/users/ndjee/statuses/117349749773821516https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mamot.fr/users/ndjee/statuses/117349749773821516Mon, 28 Sep 2026 17:04:38 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to If you told me twenty five years ago that 2026 would feel like if douglas adams wrote cyberpunk i would think i’d be enjoying it more on Mon, 28 Sep 2026 17:04:01 GMT]]>@hannah I mean, it does a great job of wrapping up a bunch of loose ends, but it also lacks so much of his trademark whimsy and fun.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://phpc.social/users/mwop/statuses/117349747357454066https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://phpc.social/users/mwop/statuses/117349747357454066Mon, 28 Sep 2026 17:04:01 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to If you told me twenty five years ago that 2026 would feel like if douglas adams wrote cyberpunk i would think i’d be enjoying it more on Mon, 28 Sep 2026 16:52:23 GMT]]>@hannah don't panick.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://hear-me.social/ap/users/115696907373093865/statuses/117349701589550029https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://hear-me.social/ap/users/115696907373093865/statuses/117349701589550029Mon, 28 Sep 2026 16:52:23 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to If you told me twenty five years ago that 2026 would feel like if douglas adams wrote cyberpunk i would think i’d be enjoying it more on Mon, 28 Sep 2026 16:12:28 GMT]]>@mwop that one’s such a bummer i feel like i always mentally edit it out of the series

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://posts.rat.pictures/users/hannah/statuses/117349544669119583https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://posts.rat.pictures/users/hannah/statuses/117349544669119583Mon, 28 Sep 2026 16:12:28 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to If you told me twenty five years ago that 2026 would feel like if douglas adams wrote cyberpunk i would think i’d be enjoying it more on Mon, 28 Sep 2026 15:19:19 GMT]]>@hannah If anything, this feels like the final novel "Mostly Harmless". Which was fairly depressing.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://phpc.social/users/mwop/statuses/117349335667866304https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://phpc.social/users/mwop/statuses/117349335667866304Mon, 28 Sep 2026 15:19:19 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to If you told me twenty five years ago that 2026 would feel like if douglas adams wrote cyberpunk i would think i’d be enjoying it more on Mon, 28 Sep 2026 15:04:39 GMT]]>@hannah I *wish* it was Douglas Adams this feels written by Francisco Ibáñez

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.gal/users/elrohir/statuses/117349278023325318https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.gal/users/elrohir/statuses/117349278023325318Mon, 28 Sep 2026 15:04:39 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to If you told me twenty five years ago that 2026 would feel like if douglas adams wrote cyberpunk i would think i’d be enjoying it more on Mon, 28 Sep 2026 14:50:45 GMT]]>@hannah with lots of Vogons.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/doctroid/statuses/117349223313881253https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/doctroid/statuses/117349223313881253Mon, 28 Sep 2026 14:50:45 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to If you told me twenty five years ago that 2026 would feel like if douglas adams wrote cyberpunk i would think i’d be enjoying it more on Mon, 28 Sep 2026 14:39:40 GMT]]>@hannah yep I need his electric monk stat, because I can't believe any of this.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/celeduc/statuses/117349179738845418https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/celeduc/statuses/117349179738845418Mon, 28 Sep 2026 14:39:40 GMT