What is Hyperland?
{{Infobox television | genre = Technology | creator = | developer = | writer = Douglas Adams | director = | creative_director = | presenter = [[Douglas Adams]]<br>[[Tom Baker]] | theme_music_composer = | opentheme = | endtheme = | composer = | country = United Kingdom | language = English | num_series = 1 | num_episodes = 1 | list_episodes = | executive_producer = | producer = [[Max Whitby]] | editor = | location = | cinematography = | camera = | runtime = 50 minutes | company = [[BBC]] | channel = [[BBC Two]] | first_aired = {{start date|1990}} | last_aired = | related = }} '''''Hyperland''''' is a 50-minute long [[documentary]] movie about [[hypertext]] and surrounding technologies. It was written by [[Douglas Adams]] and produced and directed by [[Max Whitby]].<ref>[[Ted Nelson]]: ''Possiplex''. 2010, page 272f.</ref> It ran on [[BBC Two]] in 1990. It stars Douglas Adams as a computer user and [[Tom Baker]] as a [[personification]] of a [[software agent]]. In the show Adams has a dream where he is browsing through various media. While Adams is browsing, many people and projects related to the general theme of hypertext and [[multimedia]] are presented: * [[Vannevar Bush]] and his [[Memex]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/doc/194507/bush|title=As We May Think|publisher=[[The Atlantic]]|accessdate=1 May 2012|date=July 1945|author=[[Vannevar Bush]]}}</ref> concept * [[Ted Nelson]] explains [[hypertext]] and [[Project Xanadu]]. * [[Hans Peter Brøndmo]] talks about the idea of animated icons. * [[Robert Winter]] talks about an interactive version of [[Symphony No. 9 (Beethoven)|Beethoven's 9th Symphony]]. * An idea from [[Kurt Vonnegut]]'s book [[Palm Sunday (book)|''Palm Sunday'']] is present