People currently think of text as information to be consumed. I want text to be an environment to think in.

Bret Victor, who you might know from this amazing talk, has outlined some of his ideas for the future of text in this blog post. Now, he has implemented some of them in the redesign of a well-known paper on network theory. It is nothing short of amazing, how just a few interactive elements make the paper much easier to read and understand. This kind of thing would have been very useful indeed in dealing with the physics textbooks I read last semester…