Hypertext as Database
"The online text is nothing but a database out of which new readers construct the paths that meet their specific and individual needs--it is akin to a board game, a place where many individual pieces are connected by the rules for play. Meanwhile the author of the online text is nothing but a source (often corporate rather than personal) responsible for establishing and maintaining the rules for operating that database. There is no longer any basis for the central notion of print literacy, that literate exchange involves the comprehension of the unity of knowledge or vision represented by the structures in either the distant author or the present (and seemingly stable) text." (Myron Tuman Word Perfect 65).
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