This brings up a larger point about culture and shared experience. I remember being in high school in the late 90's and reading OpEds about how the internet wa

This brings up a larger point about culture and shared experience. I remember being in high school in the late 90's and reading OpEds about how the internet was going to diminish varied viewpoints since we would all be getting our information from the same sources. Keep in mind: this was around the same time that there was an Internet Yellow Pages so the thought was a small selection of sites plus "global" access would lead to this phenomenon. Flash forward to today. With Twitter, Netflix, Pandora etc etc you can create your own stream of media that is unique to you. Or you can create your own echo chamber on Facebook. I wonder what it will look like 10 years from now for teenagers from different parts of the US. Will they have any kind of shared references? I remember reading that something on the order of 100 million people watched the finale of MAS*H. It made shared experience so easy vs today. Then I also think of the time before newspapers or radio and realize that shared experiences across millions of people is probably only a recent phenomenon. E.g. if you were from a small town in medieval Europe you probably had a totally different set of legends/stories etc from the next town over. In other words, I'm very curious to see where these trends take us.