If computers are the wave of the future, displays are the surfboards.

The ideas keep going, you have the material, you cut because there's a limit to the space allowed to you. And the space is limited because of some other constraints that have to do with money or printing or whatever.

But it seemed to me that as soon as you have computer storage you could put every point you wanted in - make the ones that are less relevant to your central topic, further away or allow the central topic to move as the reader proceeded.

What we now call the browser is whatever defines the web. What fits in the browser is the World Wide Web and a number of trivial standards to handle that so that the content comes.

They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind.

We live in media, as fish live in water.

Right now you are a prisoner of each application you use. You have only the options that were given you by the developer of that application.