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Podcast: The Bunker ā News without the nonsense
Episode: The Cosmic Absurd āĀ How The Hitch-Hikerās Guide To The Galaxy nearly explains our world
Description: A pocket-sized device that contains all knowledge in the universe? Which makes your life better, and not a hellscape of political rancour and surveillance capitalism? Come off it! Never happen. But thatās exactly what Douglas Adams imagined as the titular device in The Hitch-Hikerās Guide To The Galaxy, the cosmic road novel that changed the minds of a generation.
As a new immersive theatre version of āHHGTTGā opens in London, its creator Arvin Ethan David tells Andrew Harrison why Douglas Adams was the digital Wodehouse who would have held back enshittificationā¦ whether Elon Musk is Zaphod Bee...