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Hypertext Mimics the Brain "Hypertext, at its most basic level, is a system that lets you connect screens of information using associative links. At its most sophisticated level, hypertext is a software environment for collaborative work, communication, and knowledge acquisition. Hypertext products mimic the brain's ability to store and retrieve information by referential links for quick and intuitive access" (Fiderio, 237). Hypertext presents information as a linked network of nodes which readers are free to navigate in a nonlinear fashion. Various hot spots containing essential words or groups of words in a paragraph refer to other paragraphs within the visible screen or those on another screen. Some sophisticated hypertext systems, which industry uses in collaborative working environments, offer a user defined linking system, where the reader is free to decide whether or not to create a link. Whether links are user-defined or developer defined, the common aspect of hypertext documents is interconnectiveness. |
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Hypertext lets you connect screens of information using associative links.
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