Changing the Paradigm: Hypertext and Learning

In library school we read Elizabeth Eisenstein's The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe. She studied the tremendous impact that moveable type printing had on Western culture, starting with making that great flowering of knowledge we call the Renaissance possible. Printing even changed our way of thinking, by enabling language to become more standardized and logical. Computers have had a similar impact on our collective mind. I think it could be argued that Hypertext links have made our thinking more layered and connected. Linear and Two-dimensional models just can't contain all our thinking anymore! Anyway, here's an interesting article by Ann M. Woodlief on the implications of computer-style thinking for education:
Changing the Paradigm: Hypertext and Learning.