Technology and Anthropology

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Originally Posted by Alex Stroup

With the geographical requirement removed by modern technology the ability to coccoon yourself to a very narrow cocoon is amplified. In the entire Bay Area there are probably only a couple dozen people who would subscribe to my mix of atheism, skepticism, and libertarianism. But with modern technology I could (if I chose) essentially limit all of my "social" interactions to such people and also allow them to filter all of my interactions with those outside of that group.

I understand what you're saying, but even with that kind of immersion, you're still not divorced of the physical world you live in, though you could be a hermit geek I suppose. I guess I just have a hard time fathoming someone who would want to do this, though I suppose I've done it in the negative so why not.

Do you think this may be what's happening with radical Islamists on the net? They certainly seem to exist in a cyber-environment as well as the real world?