Instead of an organic whole, a hypertext is a rent texture whose meaning is unstable and whose boundaries are constantly changing. There is no clearly defined preestablished path through the proliferating layers of a hypertext. Though the network is shared, the course each individual follows is different. Thus, no hypertext is the product of a single author who is its creative origin or heroic architect. To the contrary, in the hypertextual network, all authorship is joint authorship and all production is co-production.
Every writer is a reader and all reading is writing.
While sometimes printed on a page, the medium of the hypertext is essentially electronic. Neither simply universal nor individual, general nor particular, fixed nor fluctuating, structured nor amorphous, grounded nor groundless, original nor copy, hypertextual space displays and evokes an alternative architecture. Taylor, Mark C. , and Esa Saarinen.