Hypertext
The move from printed books to hypertext has changed the way we think of texts and knowledge. Hypertext allows for a new way of viewing authority in a text, deprivileging the author as the source of a text's authority. The form is virtual, and each reading brings not only a different meaning, but a different text altogether. While not yet limitless, hypertexts remove many of the boundaries imposed by the printed and bound page. In doing this, it suggests that knowledge does not rely on closure, as it did in the book. In the brave new world of hypertext, the author must relinquish at least some control over the text, resulting in a collaboration between reader and writer and a new definition of authority in texts.