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Douglas Adams - Hyperland

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Douglas Adams - Hyperland

Hyperland is a 1990 BBC documentary written by and starring Douglas Adams, who tours an imagined future of hypertext and software agents. It features Ted Nelson among others.

Treated as a remarkable early look at ideas like hypertext, agents and the web before they existed.

3 Hacker News mentions · 2016–2020

Topics

  • History of computing
  • GUI, HCI & interface history
  • Documentaries & storytelling

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