Would you be on Golgafrinchan Ark Fleet Ship A or B?

jaymack wrote:

I'd happily crash land on primordial earth with Ark B, at least the telephones would be clean.

Especially seeing that Arks A and C got wiped out by a disease contracted from a dirty phone. Douglas Adams should be rebranded as a prophet.

brooksby wrote:

You mean he isn't?

Well, I haven't heard much from him recently.

Of course he was a prophet.  Wikipedia, smart phones, viruses spread by dirty office equipment.  He also understood the human condition as well as Shakespeare - the wearing of digital watches and movement of money as a facsimile of happiness, for example.

Richard D wrote:

Of course he was a prophet.  Wikipedia, smart phones, viruses spread by dirty office equipment.  He also understood the human condition as well as Shakespeare - the wearing of digital watches and movement of money as a facsimile of happiness, for example.

I particularly like his prediction of Trump:

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The President in particular is very much a figurehead — he wields no real power whatsoever. He is apparently chosen by the government, but the qualities he is required to display are not those of leadership but those of finely judged outrage. For this reason the President is always a controversial choice, always an infuriating but fascinating character. His job is not to wield power but to draw attention away from it. On those criteria Zaphod Beeblebrox is one of the most successful Presidents the Galaxy has ever had — he has already spent two of his ten presidential years in prison for fraud.