The irony of the Information Age – boosting hyper local

By Alec Hogg

This weekend we popped over the English Channel for a long-planned trip to Paris. It co-incided with the first round of the French Presidential election. For outsiders, apart from a very occasional poster there was little obvious evidence of this important event.

More than a million Christians gathered at a farm outside Bloemfontein.

In SA, organises say on Saturday a million plus Christians gathered on a farm outside Bloemfontein for a giant prayer meeting. Again, most outsiders – except those caught up in the 40km wide gridlock – wouldn’t have realised such an important event was happening.

Welcome to the new hyper local world. We are all becoming a lot more interested in what is happening in our immediate vicinity. It has the threat of amplifying the echo chamber world. But it is also a return to basics. For most of the existence of our species, we have prioritised community over national or global affairs. The irony of the Information Age is the way it is pushing us back into the old ways.

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