Shortly before he died, Douglas Adams wrote: > What we are now in the process of doing is taking the experience of the last [few years since the launch of h2g2] and radically redesigning the underlying architecture of the Guide so that it becomes much easier to find information, much, much easier to enter information, and much, much, much easier to connect one piece of information with another. Then we’ll look at how that’s working and then, I expect, we’ll redesign it again. It’s a process called evolution. Who would have predicted where that’s got us?
Here’s what we want to do: Stabilise What We Have - a really remarkable archive of informative and entertaining material written by people around the world over 25 years.
Create Experimental Spaces to play and for new signups. What does play look like here? Trails through the Guide that take you somewhere you didn’t expect to end up. A place to be productively lost a whole new word of guides and guidance, written, video, podcasts, real world initiatives. Douglas Adams had some ideas about that. So do we.
Launch New Substrate - set out on the Secondary Phase to use the convening power of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy to create new models for social media, Hitchhikers.earth a mutual owned social network place where more people can guide more people to more things they know and care about and share in a different kind of value creation.
It sounds simple. The results will be profound.
# See
Shortly before he died, Douglas Adams wrote of the early years of the Guide:
Shortly before he died, Douglas Adams wrote of the early years of the Guide: