Specifically, there is the full Turing programmability of the media and the implications that this has for emergent forms of text-making, text-generation and literary objects in general. While there might seem to be a disjuncture here - between, say, the printed page and a literary chatterBot or poetic text-generator - in fact there is a continuum. The programmaton and its associated technologies have allowed writers to increase their intervention in the programming of a text progressively. When a writer takes over responsibility for the layout and design of the work, what is this but programming? The once-'new,' now-familiar technology of desk-top publishing allows writers to encode programmatic indications of suggested 'ways to read.' A text-generator, designed by the writer, simply takes the programming of such suggested ways to read a few stages further. As for the reader, when layout is even partially open-structure - as it is on the Web, for example, where the browser may override design choices - or when the source code of a text generator is accessible to a reader, then the hands-on writerly text, the text of active reader engagement, is realised after a fashion which extends or augments the inalienable interpretative functions of any text's consumers.