I remembered one time I asked my 15 year old cousin on why he reads newspaper headlines every morning instead of just browing his twitter feeds for news. His reply was quite staggering: "I don't believe that anyone can explain something in just 280 characters or less. They may deliver the point, but surely they are missing something. A small part. It may be crucial or it may not be. But I chose the later. It's always nice to have more rather than just enough."

So actually there's hope for millenials.

Unfortunately, not all of them are like my cousins. Majority of them only want to know "what's happening" rather than "why is it happening." And for that, 280 characters is enough.

And if they are not busy enough to find out why is it happening .. they watch the video while doing their dishes.

This happens nevertheless of Google and technology. This thing happened before internet was created, when a small grocery stall has almost zero customer because the chain grocery store has arrived just a mile away. This is just how economy works. And for changing it, it would need a great amount of government's play and regulation, which would be very difficult to execute.

This would be a difficult matter, even if the world creates a norm or governments create specific laws which regulate "tech companies", it just won't catch up to how technology is changing.

This would be tricky as the web is filled with million of users with million of different ideas that may or may not undergo the complex process a book did, especially acquiring and editing. It would just be a bundle of ideas that overlap or even have no connection from one to another.

I agree. It is not that blog is dead, or that blogging is no longer an activity worth doing outside Facebooking, Instagramming and Tweeting, or that bloggers are no longer exist. I would say that blog, blogging and blogger are expanding. They just exist in different platform (like Facebook and Pinterest), with different method (people who rant on Facebook .. isn't that blogging?) and as different people (Instagrammers, Facebookers, etc).