And increasingly, the anonymity and anywhere-ness is moving into the physical realm as well. Already you need never set foot in a local bookstore. Soon you won't even have to buy your groceries locally. Anywhere will be everywhere with a vengeance. Look at the way e-commerce and shopping agents are moving business towards the hitherto unobtainable model of pure competition, for example.
Nobody knows, of course.
It will make for interesting times. I am not certain that the purpose of life is to make and consume more and cheaper goods, or that a social order organized that way can survive. Schumpeter had the same doubts, of course. When I am a little less under the weather I will try to argue this more rationally. Not everyone, of course, but most.