In particular, it will usher in a new version of a very old idea: nomadism.
So there is evidence that nomadism is good for in-groups, but at the expense of strangers.
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The nomadism now emerging is different from, and involves much more than, merely making journeys.
Another big misunderstanding of previous decades was to confuse nomadism with migration or travel.
Nomadism, most believe, tends to bring people who are already close, such as family members, even closer.
The best hope for Britain's Somalis lies in their enthusiasm for movement, which some say springs from traditional nomadism.
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And since the early mobile phones were aimed largely at business executives, it was assumed that nomadism was about corporate travel in particular.
Thus, like every other technology human beings have ever invented, says Ms Verclas, the tools of nomadism arm both sides in the eternal tug-of-war between good and evil.
Following a tradition of maritime nomadism in the region, the Moken shifted from island to island for centuries, subsisting on what they gathered underwater, along the foreshore and from the forest.
But although nomadism and travel can coincide, they need not.
But urban nomadism makes districts, like buildings, multifunctional.
His experience with nomadism is entirely positive.
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The scope of "Thirst" keeps expanding with each story: Here Kalfus deftly executes a realistic depiction of the vacillations of a young husband contemplating adultery with his wife's close friend, there he's spinning a Borges-like fable about a tribe of refugees who have been on the road so long their nomadism has evolved into a culture of its own.
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