Creating and managing modular information has become a broad topic in Technical Communication in the past years. This has led to component content management systems (CCMS) becoming widely used tools, the modular creation of content becoming the tool of many technical writers, and cross media publishing becoming the technical norm.
However, what has not changed in many cases is the way published information is planned, created and accessed. The traditional document-based perspective of information often still rules here.
Additional systems and concepts have been emerging for some time now in the area of technical communication, which can be called Content Delivery Portals (CDP). These types of portals could shed new light on the modularity of content that has been propagated since decades.
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Content delivery portals: The future of modular content tcworld 
short for dreyeck Portal
Our dreams for this technology are pulled in different directions by competing traditions as to what we put into computers and what we expect to happen there. Hypertext straddles this division and is thus able to go either way. But our dreams are most likely aligned with one or the other.