One of the questions raised at the ICA pre-conference on new media is over how hyperlinks can structure knowledge. Michael Zimmer, Microsoft Resident Fellow at the Information Society Project at Yale Law School for 2007-2008, offers a provoking idea, exploring how the French philosopher Diderot employed “textual hyperlinks” in his Encyclopédie. This was a work published in France between 1751 and 1772. Zimmer highlighted how Diderot sought to bypass censorship