A Guide is a multimedia publication with embedded performative logic. It is a Guide to Real World Action. Here is a provisional list of guides that I am interested in developing:
Guide to Democracy
Guide to Intelligence
Guide to Time Travel
These guides fit into a general framework of guides that follows the basic structure of Hitchhiker’s:
Guide to Life
Guide to The Universe
Guide to Everything
Our journey begins with Hitchhikers.Earth, a project designed to recruit a global cast of characters. Together, this cast would form a citizen-led global assembly. At the heart of this assembly is a recurrent ritual: an annual cycle where we symbolically destroy Earth – and then celebrate its rebirth.
Every Hitchhiker should hold a name of their own, a space to write and research in, and the freedom to take both anywhere. Here is how we plan to give it to them, with SIG(0) keys that never leave your device, a cooperative lease on the name, and the work of Adam Burns on sig0namectl and DNS leases.
What Hitchhiker FM brought to the Sound and Law stream at the Critical Legal Conference 2026 in London: a radio station that broadcasts a constitution being made, 240 constitutions mapped and read aloud in 3D, and a whale channel that asks who speaks for nature, and how honestly we label the voices of machines.
A Wildly Improbable Declaration and Invitation, for Douglas Adams. The history of hitchhikers.earth as told from 2042: member-owned, built on h2g2 and twenty five years of Field Research, and not for sale to Sirius Cybernetics. And an invitation to you, whether or not you are a fan, to help us build the Guide for real.
A Guide is a multimedia publication with embedded performative logic: a guide to Real World Action, not just a description of the world. Here is a provisional list of the guides in development, from Democracy and the Commons to Time Travel, each one written, forked and federated by Hitchhikers on sites they steward.
A testable experiment in multi-intelligence governance. Hitchhiker's Guide characters such as Marvin, Deep Thought and the BabelFish, and a mechanism called Proof of Understanding, bring human, artificial and natural intelligences into structured dialogue about the commons we share, and how to govern them more wisely.
