But of course it's mine.
If I'm the one doing the writing, then of course those associations are going
to spring up in my mind. Whose else might they spring up in? But even though
that's an obvious question, it seems to me that it stems from what is still the
first generation of hypertext - a generation in which editorial content is still
in the hands of the writer. Though blogs permit comments, and forums develop in
threads that may not be obvious when the original post was posted, texts of this
sort don't seem to coalesce into a whole that can
be easily identified as a text with a voice. If and when a new generation of hypertext
tools arrives, we may well find ourselves engaged in a collective act of associative
thinking. Readers of this possible future form of hypertext might not be concerned
with the voice of the original writer, but might instead see a text as an
opportunity for themselves to take part.
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