Discovery has improved greatly. Even if my set of beliefs, values and preferences are quite rare I can still use the internet and related technology to discover other like-minded people. Outcasts and eccentrics more easily find that they are not quiet as alone in the world as their face-to-face experience would lead them to believe. The outsiders can find those with whom they can be insiders.
Social media and all forms of modern communication technology enable a form of community without requiring geographical proximity. But is this sufficient?
Dispersed, technologically connected communities of like-mindedness still feel hollow to me compared to villages and communities of people living together in a communal way, face-to-face, sharing tragedies and triumphs and the very human basics of sex, companionship and some form of family.
How is the instinct toward Utopia changing? What new forms of Utopian experiments are possible today that were not in previous generations?