Hundreds of cross-referenced links on the Web create a matrix of even greater credibility. In print, we document assertions with references. Footnotes are conspicuous by their absence on the Web. Information is self-referential. Symbols and images point to themselves like a ten-dimensional dog chasing its own tails.
Names reveal our beliefs about things.
All of those statements are made in the same interview. They make clear that the speaker states or believes something rather than knows it to be true. Science turns quickly into theology. The way sites are connected on the WWW tends to obliterate our historical sense. Without a point of reference, all information seems equal.