Even though Scott seems to be able to draw upon a very wide range of cultural examples, including literature, music and sport, I tend to doubt that he's familiar with the Firesign Theater. That, however, doesn't mean that in classic "great minds think alike" fashion, he can't channel them. He writes (p. 30):

But we are now witnessing a remapping of ‘here’ and ‘there’, in accordance with the go-go-gadget elasticity of our online selves. The pressures of everywhereness, which call for a collapse of here and there, can produce a sense of absenteeism, and the suspicion that, despite being in many places at once, we’re not fully inhabiting any of them. This spatial etiquette is still under negotiation, and one illusion that we’re continually perfecting is not simply how to be here and there at the same time, but how to be there while looking like we’re here.