In spatial terms, the reading transaction occurs on a modern network of multi-lane
highways instead of on narrow, two-way streets. As
Jay David Bolter might add, the key is the electronic link, which
allows us to build and explore trees or
networks, to turn trees into hypertext (Writing Space). The fact that there
are many paths through a computer text is one of the most explosive changes in prose.
The privileged path is now privileged by readerly actions that parallel what writers
do to order the text.