This is an article about an abstract information economy, not an article about the effects of decentralized vs. centralized manufacturing. There's a lack of ph

This is an article about an abstract information economy, not an article about the effects of decentralized vs. centralized manufacturing. There's a lack of physicality, i.e. consider the difference between decentralized intellectual property (sharing patents etc.) and decentralized electronics manufacturing, food production, or transportation systems. Those latter issues taken together result in things like the current disruption in global supply chains, for which both everyone and noone is responsible. 'Anyone can build anything' sounds good, but if your only chip source is China and they have an energy/pollution crisis and scale back manufacturing, then what? Wait a few years while the USA gets comparable facilities up and running, if that's even likely? So perhaps you get economies-of-scale advantages with centralized manufacturing, but security-of-supply advantages with decentralized manufacturing?