Aiding Expression

"Hypertext publishing will aid expression in several ways. It will lower per-word publication costs by orders of magnitude: the cost of publishing a book's worth of material will fall from tens of thousands of dollars to tens of dollars. It will lower per-idea writing costs, sometimes by orders of magnitude: by enabling writers to link pithy ideas to an existing context, rather than forcing them to use hundreds or thousands of words to establish a context, it will make single-sentence publications useful and practical. Further, it will allow writers to express networks of facts and relationships by building corresponding networks of statements and links, extending the range of what can readily be said. These advantages in cost and quality of expression seem great." (K. Eric Drexler Hypertext Publishing and the Evolution of Knowledge ).

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