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The Evolution of the Book from Rock to Silicon

The words of Douglas Adams (of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy fame) narrate this story about the evolution of books from tablets of stone to tableaus on paper to tablet computers. Of course, being a very smart guy, Douglas Adams presciently predicted the rise of digital storytelling a more than a decade before the first real e-reader.

Here’s Adams’ 1993 story animated by UK illustrator Gavin Edwards.

(↬ Brain Pickings)

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