Hannah Fry believes that the current state of technology has shifted our culture from geographically-based communities to localized communities defined by shared topics.

“But but actually this idea of like localized communities is is a very human thing. The only thing is now we are localized by topic, not by ge geography.”

Michael Stevens posits that the migration to digital 'heterotopias' provides humans with new ways to associate, while acknowledging that this digital existence lacks physical grounding.

“Our immigration to this heterotopia, this other place has given us um new ways to be active, new ways to to to learn about the world and associate with people. So, it's made us more like like more human >> but less humus”