People can see how technology was very important to him, and how interested he was in the modern technology. .
Throughout, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," Adams integrated numerous creative and functional items that are associated with technology. In chapter 3, Adams described this item: "He also had a device that looked rather like a largish electronic calculator. This had about a hundred tiny flat press buttons and a screen about four inches square on which any one of a million pages could be summoned at a moment's notice" (27). This sounds like an ipad or kindle that we now have, which does not exist over thirty years ago when he wrote the novel. .
In another illustration, Adams introduced Marvin in Chapter Eleven, the robot aboard the starship Heart of Gold. Adams explained, "The Encyclopedia Galactica" defines a robot as a mechanical apparatus designed to do work of a man" (91). Marvin had helped Trillian and Beeblebrox with different tasks, but apparently these tasks were not challenging enough. Marvin claimed that he has a brain that was the size of a planet, and he was 50,000 times more intelligent than human. Furthermore, Marvin felt depressed and bored because no task he could be given that would occupy even the smallest portion of his immense brain power and intelligence. .
There was also Eddie, the shipboard computer described in chapter 16. He was the talking computer, which some of our computers now have the same ability. Trillian and Beeblebrox could pretty much ask him any questions, which is remarkably comparable to Google that we have now in our generation. The other technology that Adams mentioned were the automatic sliding doors, he described: "All doors in this spaceship have a cheerful and sunny disposition. It is their pleasure to open for you, and their satisfaction to close again with the knowledge of a job well done" (93).
