Douglas Adams predicted our digital world – AI and all – but "found life extraordinarily difficult"

‘Douglas Adams: The Man Who Imagined Our Future’ review: A playful documentary fans of the visionary writer will enjoy

Try to picture a very different world to the one we’re living in: a world where Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk don’t exist – oh, how sweet that would be!

Douglas Adams predicted our digital world – AI and all – but "found life extraordinarily difficult"

Douglas Adams was not just a science fiction writer. As the new Sky Arts documentary The Man Who Imagined Our Future shows, he was a sometimes reluctant, often accidental visionary whose satirical radio show-cum-novel-cum-TV series-cum-movie The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy spiralled from breakout comedy to Silicon Valley inspiration. Elon Musk placed a copy of the book – and a towel – in his test flight of SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket, Goog…

Douglas Adams: The Man Who Imagined Our Future