More accurately, it acknowledges that such a dimension might exist. Such vision spooks as much as it impresses. Comparisons with the transition from Newtonian physics to quantum physics are not entirely inappropriate. There has been a genuine paradigm shift. Not only does T.S. Kuhn come to mind, but also a whole raft of anthropologists.
Rites of passage are highly relevant here.
But looking at the web from this perspective, the crypto-religious overtones become obvious, even glaring. To me, these at least point to the desire for a dimension that could be characterized as spiritual, in the sense of transcending the purely reductive and materialistic axioms of commercial culture. And such analogies are legitimate to some degree. To someone comfortable with the world view defined and bounded by the organizational hierarchy, the telephone, the interoffice memo and the fax machine, what you and I have been doing with email and the web is nearly indistinguishable from magic. If it could be written off as mere superstition it would not be so upsetting.