Hypertext is text that contains a link or links to other websites, images, audio, video, or text. It is more random than cyclic. I think that it would make our world less accepting of cyclic history. We would think that everything leads to something else. Things would not lead back to where they were found before, and they would not happen in a cycle. Cyclic history is a theory which dictates that the major forces that motivate human actions return in a cycle and repeat themselves. It mostly appears in politics, recessions, and the stock market, not the internet and textbooks. The internet can link to many new webpages and websites by pressing on a hypertext. For example, by pressing on the hypertext, sent, on the website for our email, we are changing the webpage and URL. We can only go back to where we were before if we press the back button or multiple other hypertexts. We are not going in a specific order every time, though. The internet does not work in a cycle. A hypertext world would lead us to new opportunities, new jobs, and new technology. Everything would be new and change. If it were a cyclic world, everything would be repetitive in a cycle. I would rather have a changing world than a repetitive one. I think we have a changing world right now with Barrack Obama as the first Black president. A hypertext world would probably lead us to having less of an acceptance of cyclic history.
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