But of course it's mine.

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If I'm the one doing the writing, then of course those associations are going to spring up in my mind. Whose else might they spring up in? But even though that's an obvious question, it seems to me that it stems from what is still the first generation of hypertext - a generation in which editorial content is still in the hands of the writer. Though blogs permit comments, and forums develop in threads that may not be obvious when the original post was posted, texts of this sort don't seem to coalesce into a whole that can be easily identified as a text with a voice. If and when a new generation of hypertext tools arrives, we may well find ourselves engaged in a collective act of associative thinking. Readers of this possible future form of hypertext might not be concerned with the voice of the original writer, but might instead see a text as an opportunity for themselves to take part.

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