Unfortunately, there is a growing population of electronic readers who have witnessed the limitations of "android-mode" criticism and outdated technology, and prematurely ejected hypertext from the body of cutting-edge new media. From my perspective in the year 2002, announcing the failure (or even death) of hypertext is the new, chic trend in electronic journalism. Taking someone like Curt Cloninger as an example of this trend gives the hypertext writer little to fear, since the only hypertexts Cloninger attacks in his article are class assignments from his web design students at a two-year technical college (which is not exactly a bastion of literary progress). Regardless, I've encountered Cloninger's attitude in some of my discussions about hypertext with other web-savvy readers. This attitude is one of the major reasons hypertext criticism and literature must break from the routines of the canon. As long as writers desire to create electronic literature -- and by now it is clear there is a popular movement to do so -- they must be able to change or "update" as much as the technology does.