Theoretically, you could believe in the value of network and flow yet feel that the world is increasingly un-linked. But none of them do. Wired, the EFF and Manuel Castells, all believe History is on their side. So I think it is a waste of time to argue if chips really do dissolve drive shafts. The ingenuity of liberals can overcome some physical barriers to flow.
Derivative trading is the prime example.
The world's grain crop can be eaten only once, but is traded quasi-infinitely as grain futures. It is pointless to shout that this has lost touch with physical reality. That is what derivative trading is meant to do. This kind of moral question applies to the ideal cosmos of links and flows and can only be considered when the underlying belief is stated. And neither Wired, nor the EFF, nor Manuel Castells, has an answer to that last question.