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I remember in college how all the English professors we certain that hypertext novels with interweaving plot lines would replace the novel as we knew it. Even w
by tjmaxal 16y ago
I remember in college how all the English professors we certain that hypertext novels with interweaving plot lines would replace the novel as we knew it. Even with the adoption of ebooks it still hasn't happened.
- neilk 16y agoEbert has a good explanation of that. In the days when people told stories around the campfire, at any time, the storyteller could have asked the audience what should happen next. But they didn't because that would have ruined the story. Douglas Coupland was more prescient in Microserfs, written about the same time. He said that interactive multimedia wouldn't be like books, it would be more like sports.
- tjmaxal 16y agoI'm a HUGE fan of Microserfs