Flutterby™! :

I'm also thinking about the demise of the BBS, the withering of several mailing lists I've loved, and how after 16 or so years of championing virtual communities I'm finding that there's really no substitute for face-to-face contact. And that the "Information Superhighway" has had much the same effect as the Interstate highway system in terms of destroying the vitality of small communities and encouraging a warehouse-store sameness to everything.