"Douglas Adams was the best-selling British author and satirist who created The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. In this talk at UCSB recorded shortly before his death, Adams shares hilarious accounts of some of the apparently absurd lifestyles of the world's creatures, and gleans from them extraordinary perceptions about the future of humanity."
Having discovered this video when it was first posted on YouTube over four years ago, I have revisited it several times. And with each viewing I realize anew what a loss humanity suffered with the untimely death of Douglas Adams, of a heart attack at the age of 49.
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