Marvin the Paranoid Android these diodes." Marvin the Paranoid Android Marvin the Paranoid Android is a fictional character in "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" series by Douglas Adams. Marvin is the ship's robot aboard the starship "Heart of Gold". Originally built as one of many failed prototypes of Sirius Cybernetics Corporation's "GPP" (Genuine People Personalities) technology, Marvin is afflicted with severe depression and boredom, in part because he has a "brain the size of a planet" which he is seldom, if ever, given the chance to use. Indeed, the true horror of Marvin's existence is that no task he could be given would
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (fictional) reliability and quality and its tendency to focus on topics of interest to its writers. In 2000 Adams wrote: Some have compared Apple's iPad and Amazon's Kindle to the "Hitchhiker's Guide"; indeed fans have designed "Don't Panic" covers for both. Combining tablets or e-readers with (offline) Wikipedia is often considered the closest existing equivalent to the Hitchhiker's Guide to date. An app for the iPad allows you to read "Guide" entries as they appeared in the various "Hitchhikers" media. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (fictional) The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a fictional electronic guide book in the