Commentary of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

In the Galaxy Roaming Guide of the Galaxy Roaming Guide, there are irrationally unpredictable events on each page. The character spends time looking for rationality and the meaning behind life. "There is a theory that if someone discovers what the universe is for and why it is here, it will be replaced by something more strange and inexplicable that will disappear soon. There is another theory. "(Adams, 82) The universe is strange, in an extreme case unexplainable, this novel is a typical example of an unstable life.

The idea of ​​the "Galaxy Roaming Guide" comes from Douglas Adams - he was born on this day in 1952 - because he drunk in the place of Innsbruck, Austria in 1971. According to Neil Gaiman's "Do not Panic: Douglas Adams" and the Galaxy Guide of the Milky Way that was poor then, a hitchhiker guide to Ken Welsh 's Europe from Istanbul to London was found. Adams later wrote in Wales. "I was dissatisfied with Innsbruck ... When a star appeared, I thought that someone should write a guide to the Milky Way Galaxy."

I have recently read the book "Galaxy Roaming Guide" of Douglas Adams' joy. In this book, the supercomputer Deep Thought is required to answer "life, the universe, and all the ultimate problems". After 700 million years of deliberation, it is clear, but eventually I got a meaningless answer. Fans of this book are trying to add a symbolic meaning to this number, but I think that's different: Adams just laughs at the length of the person who finds the right answer.

For those who raised Douglas Adams and the Milky Way Roaming Guide (which is 99.999% of all technical writers), this represents the direct emergence of aquatic life directly on the owner's ear, the first appearance of Babel's fish . Road Adams knew what he was doing. By making his Babel fish a natural phenomenon, he not only is able to solve the original vocabulary of the language but also to solve it, but also to create something "incredibly useful" We implicitly acknowledge that we can not. Cultural burden

In Douglas Adams' symbolic 'The Hitchhiker's Galaxy Guide', one of the more interesting items besides the famous towels is Babel's fish. When inserted into the ear, Babel 's fish can translate any foreign languages ​​encountered by the wearer during the trip. Of course, Babel 's fish was imagined by Adams as a means of waving a hand to promote the plot. But the usefulness of Babel's fish finder in the real world is clear. This may no longer be an SF novel, a new device called WT 2 promises to be close to real-time speech translation. WT 2 is similar to a pair of Bluetooth headsets and seems to be very similar to Apple's AirPod. When you travel you will only carry with you When you want to talk to others, put it in your ear and let your talkers put them in their ears. Next, connect the headset to the mobile phone application, convert the language while talking.