Re:The lack of localization of the net (Score 2, Insightful)

I think the use of the Net in general doesn't come from people trying to duplicate the 95% of their lives that they can live locally, but trying to fill the other 5% that they *can't* live locally. To borrow an idea from another post in this thread, if you live hunderds of miles from the nearest car club, how do you get advise locally when you need it? The idea that localization will solve some problem with the Net doesn't make a lot of sense when (one of) the Net's big idea(s) was the elimination of being limited by locale. When we all live in a tight group, we live peacefully with each other, (a big point of Katz's article) but we lose out on individuality as we're forced to conform. When we live *without* groups (or localization) we become overly individual, and forget to play nice with each other. We've been to one extreme with conformity, and now we're moving toward the other extreme of individualism.

Wow, another probably that's likely *never* going to be solved.