Hyperland, Intermedia, and the Web That Never Was

I thought the Metaverse and Librarian were interesting takes on the 'web that never was', although I thought the capabilities and limitations of the Librarian seemed a bit inconsistent and arbitrary. It was meant to be a sort of glorified search system with a VR interface, lacking the ability to deeply analyse and reason about subject matter in its database, but it seemed to me that it was essentially a matter of luck whether the Librarian could answer Hiro's various questions.