Está no excelente Schockwellenreiter:

"Because of the looseness of the Web's links, the covers are blown off of books. The reader can hyperlink around as she wants, so a book is no longer a stroll through a landscape being led by the hand by the author. Information is strung together much more casually. Narratives and tightly constructed essays are hard to accomplish on the Web. Our literature, educational system and epistemology all are going to change - because documents are no longer tightly bound containers."

Não é exatamente isso?! A íntegra do artigo, de David Weinberger, está aqui: The Hyperlinked Metaphysics of the Web.