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What a Douglas Adams classic can teach us about the age of AI

As a spillover of the application of artificial intelligence (AI) across many fields, questions about the nature and forms of intelligence have acquired new urgency. In many ways, this has revived an old philosophical puzzle: what exactly does it mean to think, to know, or to understand? 

Newslaundry · Mar 11

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy review – flimsy extravaganza needs deeper thought

The madcap sci-fi tale is retold on a lavish scale, complete with in-show merch, but it never really blasts off

The Guardian - UK · Nov 27, 2025

Inside the mad genius of making an immersive Hitchhiker’s Guide stage show

Douglas Adams’s trippy, plotless voyage into the cosmic and absurd is this week becoming an immersive theatre production and, according to its producer Arvind Ethan David, it makes perfect sense

The Independent UK · Nov 16, 2025

20 Years Later, A Forgotten Sci-Fi Adventure Deserves Better Than Its Tepid Reception

When it was released in 2005, 'Hitchchiker's Guide to The Galaxy' was poorly received. It didn't deserve that.

Inverse · Apr 29, 2025

The 35 greatest 2000s comedies

The new millennium was high-key hilarious

Total Film · Nov 8, 2024

Best space opera books to escape into a sci fi epic

Traverse interplanetary warfare, deadly political moves and chivalric love with these beloved space operas

Evening Standard · Jun 7, 2024

A 'Joker 2' musical would actually be great — here’s why

'Joker' took 'Taxi Driver' and twisted it around. 'Joker 2' could (and should) do the same with the classic movie musical.

Inverse · Jun 14, 2022

You need to watch the funniest sci-fi adventure before it leaves HBO Max this month

This underrated sci-fi adaptation is full of charm, humor, and memorable performances. Check out 2005's 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' before it leaves HBO Max this month.

Inverse · Feb 15, 2022