In light of the comparison between Holtorf's experience and mine, there seems to be a resistance in the academic community, not to changing technologies of information storage, but rather to aspects of hypermedia theory and their application to scientific discourse. In a context in which no appeal was made to the revolutionising ideas of non-linear communication and hypermedia, electronic storage of a dissertation was readily accepted. Indeed, the increased capacity of electronic media and its advantages for storing software and massive amounts of data were welcomed.
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