Early in the 1960's, Ted Nelson coined the term hypertext, to mean forms of non-linear writing. Hypertext is characterized as a directed graph structure of nodes and links. From the start of its conception, writers and computer scientists have been involved.

Marcel Duchamp's Fountain was perhaps the most important art work of the 20th century. How did this anti-masterpiece demonstrate the power of context, when an object is referenced?

Baudrillard coined the term hyperreal to describe a socio-cultural phenomenon, in which electronic media realities become more significant than physical realities. Recently, The Matrix films have brought this conceptual perspective into the spotlight of popular media.