The first part is more the hook than the thesis, as the rest of TFA explains. (The first paragraphs outright admit that it’s not actually that defensible if tak

The first part is more the hook than the thesis, as the rest of TFA explains. (The first paragraphs outright admit that it’s not actually that defensible if taken literally.) The actual point is that every potential term and phrase in a text you’re reading should be preemptively searched for (across e.g. your web browsing history, reading list, etc.), marked up inline according to the rough potential usefulness of the results, and in any case those results should be made quickly accessible through user action, whatever the machine’s opinion on their usefulness. So less manual hyperlinking and more web searches. (Manual hyperlinks have their place as well, but that place is things the author thinks especially relevant, not literally every point they want to make or refer to.)