Big Thinkers Douglas Adams Author

Big Thinkers is a former ZDTV (later TechTV) television program. It featured a halfhour interview with a big thinker in science, technology, and other fields. Interviews were filmed in a 16:9 format and intercut with public domain material from the Prelinger Archives. This archival footage (mostly film clips from the 1940 s and 50 s) was used to create visual metaphors highlighting the speaker s points. This episode features Douglas Adams. He was an English author, dramatist, and musician. He is best known as the author of the Hitchhiker s Guide to the Galaxy series. Hitchhiker s began on radio, and developed into a trilogy of five books (which sold more than fifteen million copies during his lifetime) as well as a television series, a comic book series, a radio play, a computer game, and a feature film that was completed after Adams death. Toward the end of his life he was a soughtafter lecturer on topics including technology and the environment.