"One can argue, of course, that all writing inevitably follows this form of collaboration, however, much book-bound technology hides of obscures it. ....Even if all texts (however defined) always exist in some relation to one another, before the advent of hypertext technology, such interrelations could only exist within the individual minds that perceived these relations or within other texts that asserted the existence of such relations. The texts themselves, whether art objects, laws or books, existed in physical separation from one another" (p240-241)

 

  Landow, G (1997) Hypertext 2.0:the convergence of contemporary critical theory and technology. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press