An entry about the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation (Marketing Division) from the Encyclopaedia Galactica as featured on the BBC TV series The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. The Sirius Cybernetics Corporation is a fictional company from Douglas Adams ' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. In popular usage "marketing" is the promotion of products especially Advertising and Branding However in professional usage the term has a wider meaning of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, was a BBC television adaptation of Douglas Adams 's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy broadcast in January The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a science fiction comedy series The first portrait is of Guide author Douglas Adams himself

The Encyclopaedia Galactica is a fictional or hypothetical encyclopaedia of a future galaxy-spanning civilization, containing all the knowledge accumulated by a society with trillions of people and thousands of years of history. An encyclopedia (or '''encyclopædia''') is a comprehensive written Compendium that contains Information on either all branches of Knowledge A galaxy is a massive gravitationally bound system consisting of Stars an Interstellar medium of gas and dust, and Dark matter A Civilization is a society in which large numbers of people share a variety of common elements Knowledge is defined ( Oxford English Dictionary) variously as (i expertise and skills acquired by a person through experience or education the theoretical or practical understanding History is the study of the past particularly the written record Those who study history as a Profession are called Historians Etymology

Background

It was first used by Isaac Asimov in his collection of short stories Foundation (1951), where it is central to the first short story, The Encyclopedists, originally published as Foundation in 1942. Isaac Asimov (c January 2 1920 &ndash April 6 1992 ˈaɪzək ˈæzɪmʌv originally Исаак Озимов but now transcribed into Russian as, was a Russian Foundation is the first book in Isaac Asimov 's Foundation Trilogy (later expanded into The Foundation Series) Various people have since used the same idea, both in science and in science fiction. Science (from the Latin scientia, meaning " Knowledge " or "knowing" is the effort to discover, and increase human understanding One example of this is when it was used by Carl Sagan in his 1980 book Cosmos, and his documentary series of the same name, to refer to a text where hypothetical future civilizations could store all of their information and knowledge. Carl Edward Sagan ( November 9 1934 &ndash December 20 1996) was an American Astronomer, astrochemist, author Cosmos (1980 published by Random House, is a book by Carl Sagan based on his TV series Cosmos A Personal Voyage. It was also a common fixture in previous incarnations of the Legion of Super-Heroes comic books. This is about the DC Comics superhero team For the animated television series based on this see Legion of Super Heroes (TV series. ^[1]

Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series frequently contrasted the Galactica with the apparently more popular Guide. Douglas Noël Adams (11 March 1952 &ndash 11 May 2001 was an English author comic Radio dramatist The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a science fiction comedy series For example, the introduction to the first book notes:

Excerpts

• It was inevitable that as a new generation grew, Terminus would become something more than an appendage of the psychohistorians of Trantor. With the Anacreonian revolt and the rise to power of Salvor Hardin the first of the great line of. Anacreon ( Greek) (570 BC-488 BC was a Greek lyric Poet, notable for his drinking songs and hymns Salvor Hardin was the first mayor of Terminus, the capital planet of the Foundation in Isaac Asimov 's Foundation series. . . . "

• The Four Kingdoms-. . . . The Name given to those portions of the Anacreonian province which broke away from the Galactic Empire in the early years of the Foundational Era to form independent short-lived kingdoms. The largest and most powerful of theses was Anacreon itself which in area. . .

• . . . Undoubtedly the most interesting aspect of the four kingdoms involves the strange society forced temporarily upon it during the administration of Salvor Hardin. . . . "

• Traders-. . . . and constantly in advance of the political hegemony of the Foundation were the Traders, reaching out tenuous fingerholds through the tremendous distances of the Periphery. Months or years might pass between landings on Terminus; their ships were often nothing more than patchquilts of home repairs and improvisations; their honesty was none more than the highest; their daring. . .

• Through it all, they forged an empire more enduring than the pseudo-religious despotism of the Four Kingdoms. . . .

• Tales without end are told of these massive, lonely figures who bore half-seriously, half-mockingly a motto adopted from one of Salvor Hardins epigrams, "never let your sense of morals stop you from doing what is right!" It is difficult now to tell which tales are real and which are apocryphal. There are none probably that have not suffered some exaggeration. . . . With psychohistoric inevitability, economic control of the Foundation grew. Psychohistory is the study of the psychological motivations of historical events The traders grew rich; and with riches came power. . . . It is sometimes forgotten that Hober Mallow began his life as an ordinary trader. Hober Mallow is a fictional character in Isaac Asimov 's Foundation Series. It is never forgotten that he ended it as the first merchant prince. . . .

• Bel Riose-. In Isaac Asimov 's Foundation series, the . . . In his relatively short career, Riose earned the title of " The Last of the Imperials" - and earned it well. a study of his campaigns reveals him to be the equal of Peurifoy in strategic ability and he is superior, perhaps, in how he handled men. That he was born in the days of the decline of the empire made it all the more mpossible for him to equal Peurifoy's record as a conqueror. Yet when he had his chance to do so, he faced the Foundation squarely. . . .

• The Mule-. The Mule is a Fictional character from Isaac Asimov 's Foundation Series. . . . Less is known of the Mule than any character of comparable significance to Galactic History. Even the period of his greatest renown is known to us chiefly through the eyes of his antagonists and, principally, through these of a young bride. . . . It was after the fall of the first foundation that the Mule's constructive regime took shape. After the definite breakup of the first galactic empire, it was he who first presented history with a unified volume of space truly imperial in scope. Galactic empires are a common theme in Science fiction. Many authors have either used a Galaxy -spanning Empire as background or written about The earliar commercial empire of the fallen foundation had been diverse and loosely knit, despite the impalpable backing of the predictions of psychohistory. Psychohistory is the study of the psychological motivations of historical events It was not to be compared with the tightly controlled `Union of Worlds` under the Mule.

External links

• H2G2 - BBC - h2g2 - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
• Galaxy Quest - Wikipedia is a real-life Hitchhiker's Guide: huge, nerdy, and imprecise. By Paul Boutin Posted Tuesday, May 3, 2005, at 2:37 p. h2g2 is a collaborative online encyclopedia project engaged in the construction of in its own words "an unconventional guide to life the universe and everything" m. PT on Slate Magazine. Slate is an English-language online current affairs and culture Magazine created in 1996 by former New Republic editor Michael Paul Boutin compares Wikipedia and the Encyclopaedia Galactica of Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Paul Boutin (born 1961 in Lewiston Maine, United States) is a Magazine writer and editor who writes about Technology in a Pop-culture ***************************************************************************************** * * Douglas Noël Adams (11 March 1952 &ndash 11 May 2001 was an English author comic Radio dramatist The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a science fiction comedy series
• Encyclopedia Galactica - A Guide to Asimov's Foundation Universe

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