One of my absolute favourite fictional characters is Marvin the Paranoid Android from Douglas Adams’s The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series. He is a robot with a brain the size of a planet and a mood that makes Eeyore look like an eternal optimist. Designed by the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation, he possesses unmatched intelligence and computational power, but he spends most of his time doing menial tasks. Just imagine having the genius of Einstein, but being trapped in
