CSA3020
Lecture 1 - Video screening of HyperLand
HyperLand (1990, BBC) is a 50 minute documentary of a vision of the future
of electronic information. Written by Douglas Adams (Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to
the Galaxy) and starring Adams himself and Tom Baker (of Doctor Who
fame), it takes us through a world of interactive television, multimedia
and hypermedia, computer graphics and animation, artificial intelligence
and virtual reality. It contains interviews with Ted Nelson (inventor of
the word hypertext) and other visionaries.
To put the visionary nature of HyperLand into perspective for you, Mosaic,
the first graphical Web browser, was launched in 1993 and could not yet
handle images. HyperLand was broadcast 3 years earlier, in 1990.
Related Links
Vannevar Bush - As We May
Think. Atlantic Monthly, July 1945.
Ted Nelson - Xanadu.
MIT Media Lab
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