I was looking hard for this video after after being reminded of a bygone era of this concept of Multimedia and hyperlinks/hypertext being the next big thing. I think this is wonderful optimistic look at a potential future for what the internet could have become as per the keen mind of Douglas Adams.
This video has some really neat clips of interviews, historical footage, and this fun ethereal vibe of having intelligent, agent driven predictive access to any piece of information you’d ever need.
I wonder what Douglas Adams would think of the current Internet and Tech-Scape.
With Tom Baker as the Software Agent! Pretty neat stuff. Douglas Adams is surprisingly on the nose most times. Given how cynical he always is you’d think he wouldn’t be too accurate, but he usually ends up being right. This video is pretty optimistic though and gets a lot right. Most of it played out just like a Wikipedia binge.