We may renounce particular print conventions like univocality and singular sequence, but we maintain the culture of the book as our benchmark.
Some theorists, for instance, argue that any electronic information system must be able to duplicate the functionality of print... Such appeals to traditional values display a certain nostalgia: the more our communications technologies change, the more we insist on their continuity with older forms of expression.
(...) But there comes a point at which it is no longer productive to discuss electronic writing as if it were a simple extension of print. The rhetoric of hypertext may still be in its early days, but we have already reached that point.
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