Deibert does not state clearly here if the technologies he’s referring to here are *really* new or whether they are revised versions of older/previously existing technologies. I think his main point is that it is the *convergence* of revised versions of previously technologies and their ensuing intertranslatability that are the distinguishing feature of the emerging hypermedia environment. One of the questions we might want to ask here is if the digital revisions of previously existing technologies are revisions, i.e. constitute a difference in degree, or if they actually create new technologies, i.e. constitute a difference in kind [is a digital camera and photography fundamentally different from a traditional photograph? Is a hypertext fundamentally different from an encyclopedia?]

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