World Wide Web and Cosmopolitics

These days, many people spend significant amounts of time on the World Wide Web, aka the Internet.  The experience can be characterized as 'globalizing'--one is in immediate contact with others around the planet, and one is regularly reminded that one's location, time zone, and language, are specifications of a range of possibilities.  Accordingly, one is aware of oneself as part of a whole.  Now, many on-line experiences are irreal in some respect--fantasy sports, avatars, virtual friendships, etc.  But, most financial transactions are not.  So, for significant portions of the day, many people experience a reality that is as antithetical to particularistic off-line reality as Cosmopolitics is to traditional Nationalistic or Civic Political Philosophy, the reconciliation of which is among the most immediate of current social problems.