So, the point was to be able to have a medium that would record all the connections and all the structures and all the thoughts that paper could not. Since the computer could hold any structure in any form, this was the way to go.

The objective of hypertext research is to save the planet.

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.

The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do what you tell them to do.

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.

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.

Any fool can use a computer. Many do.