It invites or raises the question rather than begs it, but your point is understood. Hmm. I admit it's tenuously implied, but my thinking was that it does beg

It invites or raises the question rather than begs it, but your point is understood. Hmm. I admit it's tenuously implied, but my thinking was that it does beg the question! Because what we're talking about is the ostensible resolution of Ted Nelson's dilemma of wanting 'generalized paper', but then observing that what people actually use it for in practice might lead us to question some of his original assumptions about what people need computers for after all. But OK, maybe this isn't quite correct usage of the term. Thanks a lot for pointing that out about The Master Switch, which I should probably read.