TV seriesThe Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy(1981), adapted from the book by Douglas Adams, the supercomputer Deep Thought explains to its programmers that after 7.5 million years of computing, it has calculated that the answer to the question of "Life, the Universe and Everything" is 42...
hyperbolically reference "42" from Douglas Adams' "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" as a whimsical placeholder in the search for meaning. In scientific discourse, an integration of theories such as emergence, complexity, and the anthropic principle could yield nuanced interpretations of life'...
Firstly, maybe-maxarmando-ota's mention of 42 is a direct nod to Douglas Adams' science fiction classic, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. In this opus, Adams whimsically proposes that the ultimate answer to life, the universe, and everything is, indeed, the number 42. However, the...
If it was 42 rather than 1 I could help you. Well unfortunantly it has always been the number 1, but out of curiosity what is the specialty of 42?... rogue is exactly correct but http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/42_%28number%29#The_Hitchhiker.27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy may explain ...
In 1978, when Douglas Adams wroteThe Hitchhiker’s Guide, this was an entertaining satire—an absurd exaggeration of something that one might imagine happening in a much less flamboyant way in real life. But now it’s just true. Public politics in major Western democracies is mostly culture ...