was an English writer, dramatist, and musician. He is best known as the author of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, which started life in 1978 as a BBC radio comedy before developing into a “trilogy” of five books that sold over 15 million copies in his lifetime, a television series, several stage plays, comics, a computer game, and in 2005 a feature film. Adams’ contribution to UK radio is commemorated in The Radio Academy’s Hall of Fame.
A Eulogy
Man the maker looks at his world and says, “So who made this, then?” Who made this?—you can see why it’s a treacherous question. Early man thinks, “Well, because there’s only one sort of being I know about who makes things, whoever made all this must therefore be a much bigger, much more powerful and necessarily invisible, one of me, and because I tend to be the strong one who does all the stuff, he’s probably male.” And so we have the idea of a God. Then, because when we make things, we do it with the intention of doing something with them, early man asks himself, “If he made it, what did he make it for?” Now the real trap springs, because early man is thinking, “This world fits me very well. Here are all these things that support me and feed me and look after me; yes, this world fits me nicely,” and he reaches the inescapable conclusion that whoever made it, made it for him.
He was a staunch atheist, famously imagining a sentient puddle who wakes up one morning and thinks, “This is an interesting world I find myself in—an interesting hole I find myself in—fits me rather neatly, doesn’t it? In fact it fits me staggeringly well, must have been made to have me in it!” The biologist Richard Dawkins dedicated his book, The God Delusion, to Adams, writing on his death that, “Science has lost a friend, literature has lost a luminary, the mountain gorilla and the black rhino have lost a gallant defender.”
Sorry This is far too long..Lust Watch Hyperland and TED if you want Tech If you like Avatars watch those but EVERYBODY watch The REALITY
I chatted to Pencil Points on facebook. He told me about Hyperland see:
Flat Fact: he self proclaimed “fantasy documentary” begins with a shot of Adams asleep by the fire side with his television still on. In a dream, Adams, fed up by game shows, commercial and generally non-interactive linear content, takes his TV to a garbage dump, where he meets Tom, played by Tom Baker, a software agent that shows him the future of TV: Interactive Multimedia.
Much like Apple Computer’s Knowledge Navigator concept, Tom acts as a butler within a virtual space populated with hypertext, sound, pictures and movies represented by animated icons. The documentary is centered on Adams browsing these media and discovering their interconnectedness, leading him for example from the topic Atlantic Ocean to literature about the sea to The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge to the poem Kubla Khan by the same author to Xanadu and back to the topic of hypertext via Ted Nelson’s Project Xanadu.
Many aspects of the documentary show Adams’ love for Apple computers. In the beginning a Macintosh Portable can be spotted and most of the projects presented run on Apple Hardware. Even the general design of the animated icons featured in the dream is inspired by Mac OS icons.
While Adams is browsing, many people and projects related to the general theme of hypertext and multimedia are presented:
Vannevar Bush and his Memex concept of a theoretical proto-hypertext computer system are shown.
Ted Nelson explains hypertext and Project Xanadu.
Hans Peter Brøndmo talks about the concept of animated icons.
Robert Winter talks about an interactive version of Beethoven’s 9th Symphony.
This idea from Kurt Vonnegut’s book Palm Sunday is presented: stories have shapes that can be drawn on graph paper.
Kurt Vonnegut
Robert Abel shows his multimedia version of Picasso’s Guernica.
Apple Multimedia Lab employees Steve Gano, Kristee Kreitman, Kristina Hooper, Michael Naimark and Fabrice Florin talk about a multimedial version of Life Story, a BBC TV film dramatisation of the 1953 discovery of the structure of DNA.
Amanda Goodenough presents Inigo Gets Out, an interactive story for kids implemented with Hypercard.
Brad deGraf and Michael Wahrman talk about their digital puppet Mike Normal.
A NASA Ames Research Center scientist presents a Virtual Reality Helmet prototype called Cyberiad.
Marc Canter makes an appearance as an animated icon but isn’t “clicked” by Adams, so the audience does not get to see his interview.
The dream (and the documentary) end with a vision of how information is accessed in 2005, that bears some resemblance to virtual reality scenes seen in the film The Lawnmower Man two years after Hyperland was produced.[citation needed] It can be argued that, apart from that graphical representation, the documentary draws a quite accurate vision of hypertext and how it is used today, especially considering that it predates the first Web browser.
Its 50 mins long. I will have a system like this next month I reckon using a Dell XT2.
But More from MIT 2009 Namaste
Then Making An Avatar:
Using An Avatar
For My Facebook Friends Synergy : “The interaction of two or more agents or forces so that their combined effect is greater than the sum of their individual effects.” http://bluemarsonline.wordpress.com…
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Reality, Sorry……..This video is all about Poverty. Its interesting that the video was on YouTube. Because everybody hurts ha become so popular because of Haiti WMG have taken it down. They are not making any money from the Haiti spin off. In 2007 they posted a bond, just a bond of $1.1 Billion . I conclude therefore that they want to make money out of Haiti, do not want to be associated with a kid dying every three and a half SECONDS 24/7.. I say Fuck ‘Em I’m putting it up on Blip. I’ll embed it here. 222,000 people died in Haiti, 250,000 people, mainly kids, starve to death EVERY 10 Days….
So Here It Is
But I believe we will triumph but don’t forget the poor but enjoy this
At sixteen minutes past five on 23rd November 1963, a British television institution was born. Doctor Who would go on to become the longest-running science-fiction programme in the world, eventually spawning twenty six seasons of adventures from 1963 to 1989. In total, eight actors have played the part of Gallifrey’s most famous Time Lord. From the very first – William Hartnell in 1963 – to the very last – Paul McGann, in the 1996 TV Movie – the Doctor has wandered through time and space in his trusty time machine, an old type-40 TARDIS (Time and Relative Dimensions in Space). Although appearing to be nothing more than a battered blue police box, it is in fact vastly bigger on the inside than on the outside, and always departs with its familiar wheezing, groaning sound.
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