Narrative is old. Historically in the Sumer, narrative poems joined warehouse inventories as the first texts known.
Narrative creates wealth.
Yet hypertext, thusfar at least, mimics most computational systems in shifting and consuming rather than creating wealth. Hypertext, at least when it is seen as constructive rather than exploratory, is serial thought. Like AI, its elder sister in this science, hypertext would like to claim its creative powers, but to do so must become the art it claims it is. No one has ever thought this before. But always some emperor-baiting child within us will out.