Hyperland (1990)
This made-for-TV documentary introduces the layperson to concepts and technologies that were emerging in computer interface design in the late 1980s and early 1990s: hypertext, multimedia, virtual assistants, interactive video, 3D animation, and virtual reality.
- Date of release
- 1990-09-21
- TMDB
- 7.0 / 10 (6)
- Runtime
- 49m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Director
- Max Whitby
Casting
- Tom Baker — Tom
- Douglas Adams — Self
- Hans Peter Brandmo — Self
- Ted Nelson — Self
- Amanda Goodenough — Self
- Fabrice Florin — Self
- Steve Gano — Self
- Mike Naimark — Self
- Kristee Kreitman — Self
- Kristine Hooper — Self
- Brad DeGral — Self
- Francis Crick — Self (archive footage)
Interesting facts
Hyperland is a 50-minute-long documentary film about hypertext and surrounding technologies. It was written by Douglas Adams and produced and directed by Max Whitby for BBC Two in 1990. It stars Douglas Adams as a computer user and Tom Baker, with whom Adams had already worked on Doctor Who, as a personification of a software agent.
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