Winner's analysis here https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/270858.270864 is a good read after TFA.

This looks hopelessly naive now. Programmers need to eat. Cyberspace runs on physical electricity and data centers. Communication requires physical cables and/or physical transmitters and receivers. Chips are manufactured in a physical location. You need a physical place to live. Your kids need schools and playgrounds.

The past 10 years if not longer have driven home the physicality of “cyberspace”.