Satire and Sci-Fi -- Hitch Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy

So for this week I listened to the original radio broadcast of Hitch Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy. I had never listened to it before, but I've heard lots of things from it (which, i learned from listening to it!) that were used in popular culture, and the infamous movie that came out (which I never saw..). I remember being really confused when playing the game Spore when the center of the universe told me that the answer to everything was 42, but now I understand.

When it comes to applying things that happen in the radio show that can be applied to our current future, it's very interesting. We've always had this one theory about how we're living in a simulation, or how our lives are run by a computer, but the notion of the Earth itself being a computer is a relatively interesting theory to think about! Also the theory of some big, super intelligent race of animal origin secretly running everything while humans scuttle about is also a hilarious side-note to a lot of these sorts of theories, which just sort of 'happen' while listening to the HHGTTG.

The other interesting thing to note about HHGTTG is the concept of a small little computer that can basically tell you anything and everything, because that's essentially what we have now! Smartphones and tablets are about the size of the theoretical Guide inside the radio series, and can virtually tell us anything we need to know, depending on our internet connection or access to 4G, that is. The other interesting thing is the concept of a race being boggled by wanting to know the answers of the universe and the reasons for life! Many a normal human has these sorts of thoughts after a while, I find.

There's a lot of interesting introspective things that sort of occur in this radio series, but the pure comedic humor is the best part about it, I think, and when it's paired with deep, introspective thoughts that sometimes get spoken about (I think of the analogy of people being not happy because of little green squares of paper!), it makes it a really invigorating and interesting set of stories to listen to!