[andraz]

You need to study Stanislaw Lem if you want a glimpse into the future... in Cyberiad he invented the Electronic Bard whose description is uncannily close to chatgpt. Including the poets losing jobs and protesting.

And more... Adams is kind of more approachable version of Lem.

[btbuildem]

They both had the amazing ability to talk about human nature, and project it into the future through the lens of technology. Lem was such a prolific writer though, I don't know if there are any books of his I would not recommend (except maybe his last works, incredibly dense compedia of abstraction)

[thanatos519]

I am currently reading everything by Lem and indeed the Electronic Bard popped out as prophetic!

[rootbear]

When I first heard the original HHGttG radio plays, I was sure Adams must have read Lem.