A microfilm, coloured where necessary, occupying an inch or so of space and weighing little more than a letter, can be duplicated from the records and sent anywhere, and thrown enlarged upon the screen so that the student may study it in every detail. Wells also claimed that facts and information, however multitudinous, can be managed and recalled once they have been put in place in a well-ordered scheme of reference and reproduction. It can have at once, the concentration of a craniate animal and the diffused vitality of an amoeba. Man cannot hope to fully duplicate this mental process artificially, but he certainly ought to be able to learn from it. The intricate trails of human thought also inspired author and interactive software designer Ted Nelson.
Hypertext exists solely on computers.
Through common word processing we are now accustomed to text that can be formed and re-formed like a piece of clay, time after time. These texts and pictures might then be linked further. But the structure of ideas is not sequential. They tie together every whichway. Electronic publications are often cheaper to produce than printed ones.