• Intro: Radical Occasionality
• February 1995: @Rhetnet
• March 1995: Washington D.C.
• May 1995: El Paso, Texas
• July 1995: Somewhere in Michigan
• August 1995: I-90 Eastbound
• August-September 1995: Troy, New York
• September 1995: @MediaMOO
• October 1995: Troy, New York
• June 1997: Honolulu, Hawaii
• November 2001: Dallas, Texas
• Further Reading
• Salvo Responds: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6

Kairos logo circa 1996.

Many of these adaptive hypertext visions offer new pedagogical models, offering customization along the axes of student ability and experience, offering more challenging material once the student has mastered basic work. We study children in order to offer them what we already know in the best (most efficient) way possible. Yet the remaining challenge is to communicate across institutional and professional boundaries: to communicate complex ideas between equals who do not share the same discourse communities. Education and pedagogical applications of hypermedia are a start.

But the challenge that inspired Kairos, that of building better scholarly forums, remains. The Web allows many more people to access information, but until and unless we begin writing with a user-centered rhetoric, few who access the text will be able to access the ideas encased within.

Yet it is difficult to let go of the textbook as a starting point .