[cleeus]

> My men­tal mod­el of the Web is as a per­ma­nen­t, long-lived store of humanity’s in­tel­lec­tu­al her­itage.

My mental model of the Web is a human brain with all kinds of weird mechanisms - one that forgets things, makes things up, mixes memories. Google is like an "association cortex" - take it away and all the memories are still there but access to them is much harder and needs to go through more indirections (links).