I think it would be wrong to say that hypertext necessarily and always leads to work that's important, good, innovative, etc. It's a form that if it catches on with develop its own conventions, which will in turn become as stifling as some people find the linearity of print media to be. But right now it's very exciting to see what new kinds of monsters it will breed.(Shelly Jackson, on the web, in dialogue at Club Wired, March 12, 1996)