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Douglas Adams was a comedic genius. His writings covered science fiction, philosophy, and adventure… and were constantly amusing and hilarious. He wasn’t really
by BirAdam 5y ago
Douglas Adams was a comedic genius. His writings covered science fiction, philosophy, and adventure… and were constantly amusing and hilarious. He wasn’t really a world builder in the sense of Rowling, Tolkien, or Martin. His worlds were often never fully explained as that wasn’t the point of his work. His work was to raise a laugh and provoke thought, not to convey a complete imagined world. The original radio broadcast was in ‘78. The BBC TV series was in ‘81. The game was in ‘84. The books were released in ‘79, ‘80, ‘82, ‘84, and ‘92. It is safe to say that in the earliest tellings, Arthur would not have had a computer. If he had, it would have been one of the 8bit early micros. By ‘84, he’d likely have had a Macintosh 128k. By ‘90, he could have had a plus, se, 2, or something similar.
The real answer is, Douglas Adams was a Macintosh fan. It’s that simple.
- kwhitefoot 5y agoTo me, Douglas N. Adams' worlds were always much more convincing than Rowling's. They have that accidental, chaotic quality, that seems to be the way the real world is rather than the way Tolkien's is where everything is viewed through the lens of history so thoroughly explained and everything has meaning.
- BirAdam 5y agoThat is likely largely because much of Adams’s world is poking fun at ours.
- Digit-Al 5y agoBoth authors had different aims. Tolkien's aim was to build an entire fictional word with a rich history. Adam's aim was to reflect upon, and poke fun at, the human condition. (A simplification of course.)
- pmarreck 5y ago> Arthur would not have had a computer Well, at least until he got a hold of one of those Hitchhikers' Guides :) (which for all intents and purposes seem like a portable, possibly intermittently-networked Wikipedia computer)