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I read the argument precisely as "anything digital is pointless"

"One of the best things about the 'net is that, frankly, none of this really matters. None of it. It's a big joke. My twitters and my wikis and my posts don't mean anything. They're bits in the stream."

I Really don't see any other way to interpret that. The "bits in the stream" are having an increasingly large amount of impact on the world outside the internet every day, and to pretend otherwise is irresponsible.




I think the implicit assumption is that he was referring to the more social aspects of the internet (forums, blogs, etc.).




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