JoDI: Better (scientific) communication through hypertext

The latest JoDI: Journal of Digital Information (v5i1) presents a utopian ideal of sorts for scientific (and other kinds) communication: hypertext. If everything is linked it's obviously much richer in connections and hopefully easier to understand. I'm not sure I understand (or agree with what I do understand) a lot of what's in these various papers, but they sure are stimulating -- kind of science fiction about science writing in a weird way.   It's interesting that a good number of the authors are from science or computer science departments.

• The Future of Mathematical Text: A Proposal for a New Internet Hypertext for Mathematics by Robert Mayans
• Integrating Reading and Writing of Documents by P. J. Brown and Heather Brown
• Writing the Web by Angelo di Iorio and Fabio Vitali
• Unified Hyperstructures for Bioinformatics: Escaping the Application Prison by Adam Moore and Tim Brailsford
• The Next Big Thing: From Hypermedia to Datuments by Peter Murray-Rust and Henry S. Rzepa
• A Cosmology for a Different Computer Universe: Data Model, Mechanisms, Virtual Machine and Visualization Infrastructure by Theodor Holm Nelson