Stuart Moulthrop believes that hope for the future of new media can only be seen by subjecting the essential qualities of a particular new medium to scrutiny.” Moulthrop, using McLuhan’s four-part interrogation plan, studied hypertext. Moulthrop sees that children spend so much time on the computer that it is slowly replacing the television that our parents spent so much time with. I especially enjoyed Moulthrop’s section entitled “4 What does Hypertext Become When Taken to Its Limit?” His explanation of how ration began as a form of “two-way receiving,” and transformed into a medium of “commercial broadcasting” was particularly interesting. I think that it is important to consider the interactivity that we have today and where it could go tomorrow if we aren’t careful.
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