Sometimes I hate on Google, but I really appreciate them doing this (please don’t kill this product 3 years from now though). I know National news stories are

Sometimes I hate on Google, but I really appreciate them doing this (please don’t kill this product 3 years from now though). I know National news stories are always more sexy and exciting, but local news stories bind you to the place and community you live in. National news stories form a kind of “pseudo-society”. What goes on locally forms real society. I think the lesson of the last 70 or 80 years and the communication revolution is that instantaneous information, transmissions that binds everyone together in time, but not in place, is very destructive and for some reason does not work with the human mind. This is somewhat similar to Robert Putnam’s “Bowling Alone” argument from the mid-1990s, but now the effects are much more severe and I think that’s sensed across the world now.