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Did Douglas Adams predict Agentic AI?? with Tom Baker??

Actually, this is a 1990 BBC documentary about hypertext, a subject close to my heart. Note that the World Wide Web didn’t go public until 1993.

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A man with short gray hair and a surprised, open-mouthed expression stands in front of a gray on-screen menu. He wears a dark, shaggy hide cloak over a tunic decorated with a bone or stick pendant, and his bare lower legs are pale. He rests a rough wooden club on his shoulder and raises one hand as if mid-gesture. The image looks like a still from a television program.&10;&10;The title at the top of the menu reads "personality preferences," partly hidden behind the man's head. Down the left side, buttons read "manner," "dress," "accent," "species," "sex," and "more...," with "dress" highlighted in blue. Down the right side, buttons read "normal," "historical," "commercial," "cultural," "neanderthal," and "more...," with "neanderthal" highlighted in blue.
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