P lace yourself at an enormous fork in the road of knowledge, with endless amounts of time to explore. E verything around you mirrors the thing before it and the many things to which it leads. R elinquish all of your preconceived ideas of what learning is. T each yourself to look beyond the obvious and search for more. E mptiness is an illusion.
E X pect a journey.
T his is Hypertext. I n 1945, Vannevar Bush published an article in The Atlantic Monthly , which summarized the current state of information transmission employed by scientists and the flaws that existed within that state. Bush pointed out that the methods of information storage and retrieval used at the time were quickly becoming inadequate as the research continued to grow at an overwhelmeing rate. B ush predicted that because of the rapidly changing state of technology in other areas such as photography , thermionic tubes and cathode ray tubes it would only follow logically that the world of information retrieval was ready to change as well. L innear thinking was a thing of the past according to Bush.