1. Does hypertext really mean "The End of Books" as Coover says, or will
books continue to serve as an important tool for humanity? Does hypertext
evolve from the book? Or is hypertext another completly different type of
communication? Hypertext entails interaction, and the tradition "book" does
not.
2. Should man try to hold on to the book as an object, i.e., putting books
onto microfilm to preserve "reality" of it? Hardison says: "We no longer
know things directly, we only know what our machines tell us about them; that
is to say, we know insturmentalities." Should man try to hold on to things
in our own physical reality, or should we give in, give up our physicial
reality for a virtual one?
3. Does hypertext mean the death of the author?
4. Will the transition from book to hypertext present a great deal in
resistance? Or will people accept it?