Hyperland
5 videos • 138 views • by Michael James Speculative documentary about "interactive televison" made in 1990 by the creator of the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams. Starring himself, Tom Baker as his future "software agent", and a whole host of real life scientists and interactive pioneers of the time, it predicts things as diverse as the internet, the web, interactive museum exhibits, DVD chapter menus, avatars, virtual reality, and the non-linear nature of web surfing. We haven't got quite there with "micons" and software agents as charming as Tom Baker yet, but those little icons you see at the end of each Youtube clip, and use of Tom Bakers voice in UK voicemail services suggest we're not too far from that either...