The Ricky Gervais Guide To... The Future

The Ricky Gervais Guide To ...The Future is the third audiobook in the second season of the Guide To... series. As has previously been the case, the podcast has been uploaded early. All I had to do was follow the URL pattern from previous podcasts - http://www.audible.co.uk/aduk/site/product.jsp?p=PF_GERV_000021UK&BV_UseBVCookie=Yes According to the website, it was published on 28th December 2009

Track Listing

1. Introductions (0:00)

Ricky starts by recounting a famous quote before introducing himself, Steven Merchant and Karl Pilkington, with the usual effects.

2. 75 Years From Now (0:21)

Ricky starts by taxing Karls brain about what will have happened 75 years from now in the future. It will no longer matter what gender you are, what job you are in and how far it will have advanced. Karl counters this by saying the theory he heard was that the population would not grow as people would progress to become more ugly, therefore people will not have as many relationships, therefore not as many children will have been born. Ricky and Steve try to tell Karl how his theory does not work, to much success. Karl believes that we are now better looking then we was in the 1950s, unable to understand that simply fashion has changed. Karl starts saying how recently he has watched his little finger and it is doing nothing, and will therefore in 75 years time be gone. Ricky explains to him how evolution does not happen this quickly.

3. Technology Intergration (6:50)

Steve starts talking about how the advances of technology in the future is fascinating, how people will be able to access the internet from inside their own minds. Within seconds Karl takes it to far and suddenly wonders about how the computer will know more then humanity. Karl would then only use a chip in his head that links him to the internet, so he isn't himself any more. Ricky explains how the human bodies brain is incredible and that's where the information is coming from that ends up on Google. Ricky recounts when he played an animal parlour games with Karl who had to say an animal with the letter starting 'D', immediately getting worried and shouting "EGG!".

4. We're Reading To Much (11:35)

Karl believes that the eyes are getting weaker over time when people are reading to much, his evidence for this is glasses, which he believes is definite proof. He knows that there is a 'snobbery' to education and that getting one question right about a subject on a game show is better than getting 40 right about coronation street.

Quotes

Karl "I've been watching my little finger"

Steve "It's not that Google is now Karl"

Ricky "He's annoyed at the Sat Nav"