Knowledge grows by the evolutionary process of replication, variation and selection of ideas, Media affects the evolution of knowledge in society. A hypertext publishing system offers tremendous advantage over any current media in evolving knowledge. They do not lend themselves to the exchange of complex ideas. They are politically regulated. Filing, indexing, and retrieval of information is difficult.
Misinformation is hard to critic or correct.
The evaluation or critic of a bad idea, for instance, can take up to a year. A hypertext publishing system needs to support full links that follow in both directions. The system needs to be fine-grained, having the ability to comment and critique down to the sentence level of an article. The system should be a public system serving free and open discussion. The system should have a way of charging for use and collecting royalties.