Perhaps the current version of the Web is, like scriptura continua, an initial form of a technology that is attempting to free itself of the metaphors of a previous era and evolve into something that is far more suited to the realization of its true cognitive potential. … The transition from document centric to data-centric modes of information representation is, I think, an important step in the technological evolution of the Web, particularly when it comes to the notion of the Web-extended mind.

Paul Smart in “The Web-Extended Mind”