Perhaps the internet is doing all of the above and more:
encouraging and unifying small religious and other movements; further facilitating scientific unification across geographic proximity, if not also creating new scientific theories and concepts; fostering the rise of new forms of spiritual irrationalism such as those discussed in Wendy Kaminer's
wild book, Sleeping with Extra-Terrestrials; focusing the public even more on particular public personas in news, sports and everything else; creating new classes of investors who are willing to publish online just about anything, regardless of whether or not they agree with it; germinating new technological
ideas that are luring capitalists who hold unreasonable expectations of financial bonanzas.
Drawing on observations gleaned from recent animal behavior research,
Wild Ideas encourages young readers to look to the animal kingdom for inspiration the next time they encounter a seemingly unsolvable problem.