animated navigation icons, which he calls Micons. Robert Winter talks about an interactive version of Beethoven's 9th Symphony. An idea from Kurt Vonnegut's book Palm Sunday is presented: stories and narrative structures have shapes that can be represented mathematically as graphs. Robert Abel shows his multimedia version of Pablo Picasso's Guernica. Apple Multimedia Lab employees Steve Gano, Kristee Kreitman, Kristina Hooper, Michael Naimark and Fabrice Florin talk about a multimedia version of Life Story, a BBC TV film dramatisation of the 1953 discovery of the structure of DNA. Amanda Goodenough presents Inigo Gets Out, an interactive story for children implemented with Hypercard. Brad deGraf and Michael Wahrman talk about their digital puppet Mike Normal. A NASA Ames Research Center scientist presents a prototype virtual reality helmet called Cyberiad. Marc Canter makes a cameo (non-)appearance as an animated icon that isn't "clicked" by Adams; no interview with Canter is shown. The dream (and the documentary) ends with a vision of how information might be accessed in 2005. In hindsight, Hyperland does describe a number of features of the modern web and, apart from some underestimates of graphics and processing power available, the documentary paints a not inaccurate picture of hypermedia and hypertext and how they are used today. This is especially noteworthy considering that it predates the public release of the first Web browser by about a year. References External links Douglas Adams Homepage about Hyperland Watch and download Hyperland at the Internet Archive. BBC television documentaries Hypertext Electronic literature Films about virtual reality Multimedia Television episodes written by Douglas Adams 1990 television specials Documentary films about the Internet