The multimedia industry of the early 1990s was clearly more market-driven than thoughtful, involving too many people who thought all media should endeavor towards television. In hypermedia, authors can collaborate with computer engineers to extend the range of expressive possibilities. But Apple Computer co-worker Mike Larkin offered HyperTalk code that would make its randomness more robust and interesting by also randomizing the illustrations. When artists have friendly, interested engineers around with whom to work, it's a learning experience beneficial to both. A dearth of subject matter that deserves this medium is clearly not the problem.
Art usually succeeds by enclosure, by excluding the rest of the world.
Politics, in all senses of the word, is about making connections. Within existing systems, it can be about personalizing power, meeting the players, connecting with legislators and funders. Yet on the outside, or at the periphery of a system, it involves conceptually understanding all the mechanisms and aspects of control, large and small. Hypermedia can be a place for these connections to be presented. The centralization of publishing industry and mass media into a decreasing number of corporations could be illustrated with a hypertext structure.