This creative essay highlights ideas from Quantum Mechanics and Chaos Theory, which have influenced 20th century literary development from print to the web. Nonlinearity in fiction is explored as an attempt to break deterministic patterns, (i.e. the conflict - crisis - resolution model) and create a satisfying new form.

The web's underlying languages and conventions concern space-time, information and control. Dynamic hypertext markup language actualizes the space-time concept and fosters a geometrization of the page. Early hypertext focused on navigation and page-to-page linking; the new paradigm involves an infinitely penetrable matrix. Java Scripting that allows document unfolding and manipulation permits visual tracking — greatly benefiting hypertext.