The desire to slip the surly bonds of earth, which runs through much of technolibertarian thinking, might be called virtuality. Meaning, not "virtue" in the sense of Plato or chastity before marriage, but in the sense of "virtual reality." In the positive sense, virtuality means using computers to overcome boundaries of time and space and physical limitations: It's about email and flight simulators. In the negative sense, it means the same thing, but with the blinding consequences of ignoring the ways, good and real, that we are all grounded in time and space and the realm of the senses....

-- Cyberselfish : A Critical Romp Through the Terribly Libertarian Culture of High Tech, Paulina Borsook