The set up in The
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is really interesting since it imaged earth
as a giant computer for calculation answers for life, universe and everything
else. At 5 minutes before the calculation ends, the “catastrophe” happened and
earth is destroyed. The protagonist happened to be the last human being left on
the earth that could be rescued. He then meets lot of aliens with funny names like
“Ford Perfect”. At the end, one of the aliens try to get the information of calculation
out from the protagonist’s brain. Arthur managed to escape after.
One part of the ideas
in the story I think interesting is aliens have the same philosophy questions
as us. They also eager to know the answer of question such as where they came
from and what is the meaning of life. Douglas Adams imaged a universe that lives
form try to figure those question by using technology. This might happen in our
future and I am also eager to see how the development of Artificial intelligence
could help solve the problem like this.
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