At this point the digital world is necessary to maintain efficiencies and progress that keep civilization running on the resources we have. So it is necessary.

At this point the digital world is necessary to maintain efficiencies and progress that keep civilization running on the resources we have. So it is necessary. We could survive without it, in some sense, but not without a global catastrophe. Coordination, communication, efficient finance and logistics, etc. provide huge leverage on our physical resources.