Douglas Adams died 25 years ago today. This has made a lot of people very sad. And has been widely regarded as a very bad thing.
I believe that he was much more than just a novelist. His fiction seems to have started a cosmic mudflow in human society. How else to explain the irresistible muckslide taking us down to...
"data centers", aka Marvin, the neurotic robot with "the most powerful brain in the Galaxy"?