I’m embedded the Google Video link to Douglas Adam’s Hyperland, and the one in the link below does not see active anymore. It is pretty common for links to migrate over the course of time, so it is often a good idea to do searches at the original hosting site (in this case Google Video), when a link goes dead. Let’s see how long this one lasts!

[googlevideo]http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7190175107515525470[/googlevideo]
Jeff

I haven’t had a chance to watch the full movie version of Hyperland closely yet (available as of today on Google Video), but what I’ve seen convinces me that this will be a nice complement to our study of hypertext later on in the semester for ETEC540. It covers much of the same history we will be reading — Vannevar Bush, Ted Nelson, Xanadu, the Media Lab… And based on previous iterations of the course, I’m willing to wager we have at least a couple of rabid Douglas Adams fans in our cohort.

Gestating off-screen, adding an ironic sheen to the proceedings, is the yet-to-be-realized World Wide Web, which would both embody and explode the vision of hypertext under consideration.

Update: Oook rightfully points to Hyperland’s Wikipedia entry for useful context.

(Via Boing Boing. Cross-posted to Abject Learning.)