No, seriously, the "digital economy" is not new these days - have you seen any positive impact on resource consumption / pollution ? It only got worse...
Warfare is about control of real resources - some people might be willing, but countries in general won't settle for fake ones !
And tons of services can be created even around the negative consequences of this... all the cornucopia of new diseases mental and physical brought about by excessive virtual consumption will boom into a huge healthcare industry etc. This will also be growth!
And just like "power" can't be real or fake, it either is or isn't, same with resources - as long as there are exchange mechanisms, there's no difference between "real" or "virtual", everything is as real as everything else...
Entities that insist on "old fashion fighting for `real` resources" should be restructured. People rewired / reeducated.
We're on the right path, but yeah, we're maybe only 0.01% of the way there... need to do things faster and harder. Let's not chicken out now and go retro/conservative instead of pushing further! The future is... amazingly incomprehensible! Heil to it!
"Control over physical resources" is just a means, not an end... If you want "more power for your nation" or whatever and the world stage has been restructured so you can better get that by playing a different game, you'll switch the game. And Russia seems to be good at both cyber-warfare and "mental games", they can get even better and win even more, good for them, whatever.
(And the future of cheap-renewables plus mini-nuclear will mean power/energy will be available to everyone... fight would be more on "fabrication and repair capability/tech for next-gen hardware" or stuff like that - here China and SE-Asia seem to be winning the game, and they overall are pretty pro-globalistic and pro-virtual... for their own f up reasons, but whatever, if it pushes things in the right direction, fine.)
Anyway, things are going fine, though slow (sometimes progress goes one casket at a time unfortunately)... let's just hope some people don't f things up because they have their own personal/national/etc. crusade to fight for and mix it up with nostalgia for the "past full of meaning" and they drag us into some messed up war. Let's try and be peaceful and keep commerce flowing, previous generations have worked too hard to get this global system going for us to f it up by, ironically, being nostalgic for some good-ol-times that never actually existed...
This is wishful thinking. You would need incredible improvements in technology to maybe hope to start reducing resource consumption. Because so far, resource consumption only got worse as efficiency got better.