However, speaking with all the gravitas of my 53 years, and as not so much a digital immigrant but more of an away-dayer who takes short trips into cyberspace, I think Scott may not quite have the long view necessary to fully apprehend this epochal transformation in our terms of existence.
He spoke much more as an immigrant, whose father came to the "magical place" of America.
*** At the same time as Charlie Phillips starts taking photographs of the Piss House pub, 1968, Enoch Powell tells Conservatives in Birmingham that, "like the Roman", he sees "the Tiber foaming with much blood" should an "immigrant descended population" settle and multiply in Britain.
To Donald Trump and his followers, I am not much more than an immigrant, born and raised in Mexico City.
Unlike much of Europe, France is an immigrant nation, the number of immigrants having risen from one million in 1881 to 2 million by 1962 to 3.7 million by 1982.
But Talde's first cookbook, "Asian-American: Proudly Inauthentic Recipes from the Philippines to Brooklyn," is as much a manifesto of immigrant belonging as it is an introduction to his two Brooklyn restaurants, the pan-Asian Talde and a neighborhood bar, Pork Slope.
But let's not forget that Ali, like Salman Rushdie and Bhatti, is just as much a part of immigrant communities as the would-be book burners, and that if we listen out we can catch a great range of voices from every community.
It remains a marginal place in the city, and very much a place of immigrants, particularly the Russian and Jewish immigrants who have opened the small shops and flea markets that now dot Surf Avenue.
Hot or not, the place is very much the personal projection of an immigrant.
