For many decades, perhaps more than a century, technology moved us away from nature and each other.  Electric lights allowed us to stay up late, do daytime activities at night, then sleep when the sun was up totally scrambling our natural rhythms.  Air travel allows us to go all over the world in a single day messing with our sense of time.  Television let us see parts of nature that we would probably never get to see in real life, but we saw it in an artificial way, without the scents, the touch, and the dangers of the real thing.  So technology didn't move us closer to nature, it moved us away from it.  That is why most of us lost the ability to sense oncoming natural disasters that animals can still sense, like tornadoes and earthquakes.  And many people thing that modern computers and the internet have made that situation even worse.  
    Some say though that the internet is actually bringing people closer to each other and to nature again.  That is because, with things like facebook, twitter, and blogs, people can share there ideas, opinions and discoveries with others anywhere in the world almost instantly.  That includes environmentalists who can let people know when a country or a group is doing damage to nature.  Or just individuals who can take and post photos of animal cruelty, dumping of hazardous waste, etc.  This makes it harder for any person or company to get away with harming the environment.  But does that really mean the internet is bringing us back to nature?  I'm not so sure about that.