Prior to reading the information available for this week I was aware of hypertext and how it is used to link non-linear information to the content of pages that provide what is being read with greater context.
Reading the week's information has certainly provided me with a greater understanding of how the WWW and its hyper linking concept has proliferated information throughout the world.
With the advent of being able to use hypertext I feel that society has taken a very large step from understanding information as just linear and separate within it's own boundaries to now having the ability to interact with the information in a way we were never able to do.
Hypertext and the WWW has allowed us to be able to write linear information in many different forms, thus being able to portray and give greater context to our ideas in order to get our meaning across.
As Bush mentions in 'As we may think', the human mind operates by association and it is through the WWW and hypertext that we can associate more to our texts than just its linear nature.
Since Bush wrote his article in 1945 and Tim Berners-Lee's proposal of the WWW and Hypertext in 1989, the World Wide Web and Hypertext has evolved exponentially.
Is it now possible that we can have too much hypertext?
This blog entitled Standing at the hyperlink crossroads by 'Kimota' presents an interesting view, that there is a school of thought and research that suggests hyper linking within documents reduces reading comprehension.
The age of HTML5 is now upon us and with this latest incarnation of the language that drives the WWW comes an even more refined set of protocols by which we can further move away from information in a linear form.
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