The digital future

[sideshowbob]

Interesting think piece on Perfect Sound Forever (a top music site, btw):

http://www.furious.com/perfect/mp3.html

Like never before, music is now tied to a bunch of technologies that doesn't even settle for one single day. Ten years on, all our fancy little electronic devices will be low-bid E-bay nostalgia items and we'll be scrambling to get the hottest player device for whichever music medium temporarily becomes the standard for the time being. Some of us will lose our minds at the pace and path of these changes. Some of us are drooling in insatiable anticipation over this. Either way, it would do us a world of good to pause now and then and wonder how Marshall McLuhan (who understood that HOW we get our information trumps the info itself) would have sussed out each new wave of music devices and what these contraptions say about us and how we devour our favorite songs.

Well put, I thought.

-- Ian

 

[lhatkins]

I hear that! MP3, WMA bla bla bla, every time I look for a mp3 player now it has something else bolted on to it. for heavens sake can't we keep something current for more than 1 year?? New this, new that, and once you have got the hang of it, oh look there is thing else to boggle your mind over.

Not that I dislike new technology, not the case, just if things progressed at a sensible pace and not warp speed, the rest of the population can catch up.