Ebert 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

Ebert 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.