Toni's Blog for Lit. of Horror

For the future in my lifetime and beyond, I think a lot of things will happen at a rapid pace, judging from the amount of things that had happened during the past few years. I'm mostly speaking from a technology point of view, where people are constantly inventing and developing our technology. We're already trying to find ways to utilize virtual reality in ways beyond gaming, and robots are already taking some jobs as science fiction had predicted. Aside from technology, the environment is getting progressively worse, so I'm sure chunks of Florida will be underwater in my lifetime. If we're lucky enough, we might finally have colonization in space in the near future.

Douglas Adams’s Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy was definitely on my reading list for a long time, so I’m glad I got to take time to listen to the original radio version, which I feel is so much better because hearing the voice acting really helps the delivery of the storytelling. I love the idea of Hitchhiker’s Guide because I’m greatly fond of absurd British humor. The whole radio series is done in this deadpan tone, which goes fantastic with all the over the top and silly stuff that happens in the story. One of the best examples of that shows through Marvin. It’s incredible that there’s just this robot designed to be smart but, also to be extremely depressed. Everything he says is horribly sad about his life, but it just ends up making him horribly relatable and that makes his character so funny. In addition to that, I love how they casually blow over a lot of the seemingly serious things that happen in the series. There was really no sentimental emotion over the Earth b