With so much cool & inspirational ideas lingering around, the modern web is a scary place. We need a new philosophy of learning and being in such an environment.
I find this to be one possible meaning of “Synaptic web”, basically practically acknowledging you yourself are a node.
If that makes any sense.

In order to keep any sort of control over our information (now-finally-showing-as-)obviously limited intake, we must let go of personally picking it. We need to fully outsource this to personally-trained machines, “assistant” abstractions.

This however seems very counter-intuitive to most, for the current moment.

On Twitter, for example, if I don’t read it RIGHT NOW it’s gone. Poof, no more. Just gone or worse, irrelevant.

Or let’s make a RSS to News metaphor. Consider the difference between getting a digest “newspaper” once a day with everything interesting that happened yesterday or having every journalist every time they discover something interesting barging into your office shouting “HEY I FOUND SOMETHING INTERESTING!” And then proceeding to tell you about it.