Anarcho-syndicalism and technology?

I found a clip of Noam Chomsky in Necessary Illusions about the role of mass communication in the world today:



Sure he comes across didactic, the lefty anarcho-syndicalist, but he makes valid points. My intuition tells me that all of these networked communication technologies will someday make many of us to a certain degree, anarchists whether we like it or not, and that media censorship and control over the doctrinal system will one day be mandated here so that order is maintained. The test of the limits of individual agency and help us unravel the recursive nature of true autonomous free will.

What I'm suggesting is that if networked technology takes us in a direction where people around the world can organize and mobilize themselves freely, creating and managing economic surpluses themselves through digital mediums of exchange, away from the eyes of government institutions such as tax collections, the world could balkanize along ideological lines, across national borders to form pseudo-sovereigns. (Encryption and peer-to-peer technologies may enable this.) When will this happen? When technological innovation mediates and alleviates the problem of inter-language communication. This potential for cross-border balkanization would be the raison d'etre for "elites" (eg. governments) to control the doctrinal system and sustain existing structures of national border. Unfortunately these forces could end up reinforcing resistance and further engendering balkanization. We can look to mass communication in China today - government censorship versus the interests of the disenfranchised - to see how this will play out on a global scale.

Ok I'm ready to admit this bleak image is nothing but a passing fancy. I'm not sure if I can wholeheartedly believe it. What it does signify to me that this is probably something worthwhile to investigate: how technological innovation and diffusion may change the organization of global political power.