Electronic Fiction in the 21st Century

In the 21st Century, readers will turn on and interact with literature that is displayed on affordable, book-sized computers. Electronic fiction forms will include "narrabases" (nonsequential novels that rely on large computer databases); "narrative data structures" that elegantly organize fictional information on eye-pleasing computer screens; complex narrative investigations based on the adventure story model developed in computer games; and stories told collaboratively by groups of writers in online communities. Computers may even store their own observations and use them to tell their own stories in their own  words.

Author's Note: At the time of the writing of this classic paper I was excited by the possibilities that hyperfiction offered for a new literature. I still am. However, I now see print literature and e-literature more as parallel art forms where ideally writers in each medium understand each other's vision and,  as between poetry and fiction, sometimes move with ease between the two mediums (Source: paper as published on web)

Paper was actually written at least two years before publication and so no Storyspace narratives are mentioned.