18 Jun
2008
18 Jun
'08
11:41 a.m.
On Wed, 18 Jun 2008, Chuck Guzis wrote:
If you like Otlet, . . .
http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~buckland/otlet.html
and check out Emmanuel Goldberg (a lot of Vannevar Bush's "memex" stuff
was lifted from Goldberg's)
http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~buckland/goldberg.html
and, of course, if you hadn't already heard, "Hyperland" is now available
on WWW!
Hyperland was a "fantasy documentary" made in the late '80s and broadcast
on BBC in 1990. It was written by Douglas Adams, starring Tom Baker, based
on Ted Nelson's fantasies about internet, well before Cern built the early
WWW.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperland
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7190175107515525470
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=hyperland&search=Search
Downloadable here:
http://epeus.blogspot.com/2006/09/douglas-adams-hyperland.html
http://media.ito.com/kevinmarks/hyperland.mp4
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Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com
(Michael Buckland was my PhD advisor)