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Submission + - SPAM: Remembering Douglas Adams

destinyland writes: "Douglas Adams' birthday rolled by this month, a good time to remember a speech he gave one month before his death. "We are participating in a 3.5 billion-year program to turn dumb matter into smart matter," Adams said, envisioning an enormous data model with real-time information about every object in the universe — "a soft earth, alive and developing..." Tags may be the first step towards that model, but it's also a good example of the real pleasure Adams always took from imagining alternate futures. One of his most famous sayings captures this energy, his special combination of enthusiasm and insight: "Life is wasted on the living.""
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