I think the desktop (includes laptops in this sense) is important as it's where the creation of everything else happens. I think the internet is unique in that every person who has the means to be a consumer of media also has the potential means to be a creator of that same media. If we lose that we lose a big part of what's special about the net.
I do in fact have flintlocks and muzzle loaders and rifles and shotguns and pistols. I could supply a few of us with arms. But I know a guy who could arm pretty much my whole town. It's like when we go in to the gun store in LFD2 except X100.