The Origin of HyperCard in the Breakdown of the Bicycle for the Mind

If the title rang a distant muffled bell somewhere in the back of your mind, as it did for me, I saved you the trouble by googling - it's a pun on the title of Julian Jaynes' contentious book: The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, though the relevance of Jaynes' thoughts about the origin of consciousness to the matter in hand are not obvious to me.

Brings back some fond memories. Surely one of the questions it begs is what current tools replace HyperCard; clearly not html per se - WordPress seems like the closest analog, really. Though obviously static markup/css/js encourages the kind of tinkering that HyperCard also was good for, a way for non-technical folks to dabble in coding (with occasionally disastrous results, sure).