My son and I were talking about it Sunday evening. About how much technology has changed. In my life time, I’m 63, and in the era of music storage we have gone from 78 rpm to 45 rpm to 33 1/3 long play records. Then came reel to reel, eight trac and cassette tapes. From there we went to CD and currently mp3 storage. My sister-in-law’s husband, who has worked in the laser development field, believes that the width of the transmission band on recording devices will be one atom wide (vs. the ¾ inch wide video transmission of several years ago). Where will it go from there? Who knows?
It seems that not only is technology changing but the rate of change is changing. It seems to be growing in an exponential rate. We can see it in our own lifetimes as we must purchase the latest and greatest piece of audio (or video) transmission electronics. High definition TV is only one of the latest; other formats will follow in rapid succession. It makes life interesting, complicated, fast paced and expensive.
K.
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