"enabled us to construct communities that I’ve decided to call vertical — groups of people united by identities, interests, and values rather than by physical p

"enabled us to construct communities that I’ve decided to call vertical — groups of people united by identities, interests, and values rather than by physical proximity." I'm fairly sure this 'take' is at least 30 years old, I seem to remember reading something in the early 90s describing almost exactly the same thing, along with various 'death of distance' type think-pieces.