The Paperless Office Is Possible,

The World Wide Web Is Precisely What We Were Trying To Prevent. We Long Ago Foresaw The Problems Of One-way Links, Links That Break (no Guaranteed Long-term Publishing), No Way To Publish Comments, No Version Management, No Rights Management.

The Paperless Office Is Possible, But Not By Imitating Paper. Note That The Horseless Carriage Did Not Work By Imitating Horses.

They Were Saying Computers Deal With Numbers. This Was Absolutely Nonsense. Computers Deal With Arbitrary Information Of Any Kind.

Let Me Introduce The Word 'hypertext' To Mean A Body Of Written Or Pictorial Material Interconnected In Such A Complex Way That It Could Not Conveniently Be Presented Or Represented On Paper.

So, The Point Was To Be Able To Have A Medium That Would Record All The Connections And All The Structures And All The Thoughts That Paper Could Not. Since The Computer Could Hold Any Structure In Any Form, This Was The Way To Go.