There’s this passage in Systemantics which talks about “dual bureaucracy” in ancient Egyptian organisations (presumably public office).
It sounds like an excellent idea, but I cannot find any sources.
Does anyone know if it is true, and of any research or articles which explain it in more detail?
@samir All Adams seemed to see is the danger of dirty phones… and we still have that problem. A lot of dirt is being spread with phones on this fine planet.
Which only raises more questions, considering that we are, according to him, descended from those who came here in the B Ark.
@samir Well, Marvin may have been the clearest thinker, but Ford also seemed to be a skilled observer… IMHO
Anyway, Ford wrote about earth he didn’t write the whole guide.
@fubaroque Yeah, but it’s Earth’s origin story we are concerned with. Perhaps he made it all up?
(TBF, as far as I can tell, he was mostly interested in saving word count.)
@fubaroque Was it direction from on high? I can’t remember.
I guess I’ll have to re-read them all…
@samir No. At some point the guide gets an update, user interface changes etc. Then he (Ford) takes a look at what the earth entry, that he spend years in fleshing out with all kinds of details that could be of interrest for the intergalactic hiker on, looks like and discovers that all it says now is “mostly harmless”.
That is all, two words.
samir, a terminally deprecated method
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