Why does this sound like Push 2.0 to me? And it's ironic that he happens to mention books -- that's the antithesis of a "stream." A book would be like a river

Why does this sound like Push 2.0 to me? And it's ironic that he happens to mention books -- that's the antithesis of a "stream." A book would be like a river bank, somewhere to get the hell out of the stream.