As we approach the twenty-first century, technological changes threaten to accelerate the eradication of cultural difference. In The Virtual Community: homesteading on the virtual frontier, Howard Rheingold writes that "the social networks in diverse societies such as the U.S. and other parts of the world lack the shared ethnic and historical context that strongly guides people's social communication."

Beyond nature and history, immigration and ethnicity, @Vesu.Vius serves as a larger metaphor for questions of identity, of being somewhere physically and socially, and of the disembodiment or virtual identity in cyberspace.