Yet if something we’d agree to call community results from the Internet and the Web and their evolution, I don’t expect it to be a tribal form of community — people bonded for life, living side by side, intimately involved, standing back to back permanently against their enemies. I predict it’ll be more like the looser connectedness that the agora encourages, a varied mix of people coming from all over, a context for the barter and exchange of goods, ideas, skills, energies. […]