The question your generation will face is not whether the future will be more personalized, more technological, and more customized. It will be. The question is whether, amid all that change, you will still believe there are some things worth experiencing together. Some books worth reading in common. Some ideas worth wrestling with collectively. Some civic and cultural inheritance worth passing on. Because a free society depends not merely on individuals pursuing their own paths, but on citizens who possess enough shared understanding to speak to one another, argue with one another, and ultimately live together.