The catch was that these people would have to make a long commute to there work. With the computer, improved telephony, and the Internet, information faces less and less barriers. If our economy is increasingly based on information rather than heavy industry and information is not bound to the office but can go to wherever it is needed, it is not hard to imagine a day when working in a major metropolitan area is as antiquarian as working on the farm. We can speculate further by saying that the liberating nature of digitalized information can free us from the yoke of centralized governments and economies. Even if predictions that a person can do actual work on the beach or that a 'Leviathan'-like government will be less likely in the future do not come to pass, we might still see gains to our personal freedoms.
People send e-mail to others thousands of miles away in mere seconds.
Friendships are formed via Usenet newsgroups. Businesses, schools, and ordinary people have Web Pages that are full of unique ideas, colorful graphics, and a myriad of other fantastic features limited only by the Web browser, the bandwidth of the connections, and the creators' imagination.