Layers

Digital content exists in a live network. MLA format and analog bibliographies are stagnant; hyperlinks are active and continuous. They tell us about the context of a work—what informed it and what it went on to inform—and paint a picture of how communities are learning over time.

Zero marginal transaction costs allow distributed ownership and infinite versioning: a digital commons.

The problem is that in trying to preserve the old experience, the 1st gen tools also preserved the restrictions of that world, and weren't able to tap into 2 big advantages of the new one:

Half a century after the invention of the computer, it still feels nicer to write on paper or read from a book. Why is this?