What's a Key Leap From This Virtual Water Cooler?

Research in the 19 seventies by tom allen at m i t. studied our social intractions in the physical office. He found that serendipitus water coolar conversations are almost always with people in very close ximity of us in the office. So it expodentially decays with distance in the office. But in the virtual world, you can bring any one together. so presumably you can have much richer and more virtual interactions than real physical ones.