Hypertexts are not a thing that I am personally knowledgeable of and remains aloof despite this reading. According to Ted Nelson, hypermedia is the non-sequential presentation of information, working as a “framework of reunification”. This technology basically 
allows audience to create new forms based on their own interests by giving them the opportunity to choose which linking processes to follow. The possibilities are endless with linear documents accessible to multiple users, as well as the categorisation of messages according to social-strategic archetypes.
On the other hand, there are issues that negatively impacted hypertexts as with any new technology in its initial conception. The issue
of compatibility is taken into consideration, but most importantly is the essential “computer literacy” the user must possess to use such. Most information is presented into a near-hierarchical structure and are often coded into other people’s frameworks often inappropriate to the user’s.
As a solution, Nelson proposes to “bring literature, science, art and civilisation to new heights of understanding through hypertext,” in order to reduce the audience’s resentment towards what he aptly labels the ‘computer tide’. He suggests that hypermedia has the potential to bring a “new Golden age” in the future, through the unification of all electronic text systems.
Project Xanadu, invented during the fall of 1960, was considered as the first hypertext system designed for single users, office network servers and public franchising with all features included. The idea brought about what was described as a “pool of storage,” particularly to make new things out of old (think, recycle). The system is consisted of three parts; origin, where the elements begin; commonality, the sharing of elements between units, and links, the process of marking, annotating and connecting portions of units. The writer claims that the project will safely preserve the heritage of mankind, and at the same time, making it accessible.
