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- Hypertext -- a new literary form
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- │ Hypertext is more significant to society than the │
- │ invention of the printing press and the alphabet │
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- │ James Burke, Author, Lecturer, Futurist, & PBS TV's │
- │ "Connections" -- "Day the Universe Changed" │
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- In most forms of communication (books, radio/TV, voice, newspapers,
- music, the CREATOR has major control over the presentation sequence.
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- In contrast, hypertext is a purposefully multi-pathed literary form
- offering USERS major control over the presentation sequence and
- acquisition of the relationships in the contained information.
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- The principal characteristics of hypertext are:
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- Fragments -- Many small units of information .......... <form11>
- Links -- Each unit has links to other units ....... <form12>
- Grouping -- Commonalities are both named and linked .. <form2>
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