The objective of hypertext research is to save the planet.
Computers are hierarchical. We have a desktop and hierarchical files which have to mean everything.
The World Wide Web is precisely what we were trying to PREVENT. We long ago foresaw the problems of one-way links, links that break (no guaranteed long-term publishing), no way to publish comments, no version management, no rights management.
Any nitwit can understand computers, and many do.
I was very intensely concerned with all kinds of new media.
We live in media, as fish live in water.