EINDHOVEN, Netherlands (AP) - It was Aug. 17, 1982, and row upon row of palm-sized plates with a rainbow sheen began rolling off an assembly line near Hanover, Germany. An engineering marvel at the time, today they are instantly recognizable as Compact Discs, a product that turns 25 years old on Friday - and whose future is increasingly in doubt in an age of iPods and digital downloads.
One day archaeologists will dig up vinyl albums and declare them to be "cult objects."
Something is wrong here. War, disease, death, destruction, hunger, filth, poverty, torture, crime, corruption, and the Ice Capades. Something is definitely wrong. This is not good work. If this is the best God can do, I am not impressed.
EINDHOVEN, Netherlands (AP) - It was Aug. 17, 1982, and row upon row of palm-sized plates with a rainbow sheen began rolling off an assembly line near Hanover, Germany. An engineering marvel at the time, today they are instantly recognizable as Compact Discs, a product that turns 25 years old on Friday - and whose future is increasingly in doubt in an age of iPods and digital downloads.
One day archaeologists will dig up vinyl albums and declare them to be "cult objects."
Like 78 rpm records, 8-track cassettes, compact cassettes, 1/4" audio tapes, and soon CD's, DVD's, and Blu-Ray DVD's.
Next stop: solid state memory (BIIIIG 'flash cards', like the one in your digital camera).
It is already happening.
My 24 year old daughter in-law didn't know what my LP's were.
Se reconized some of the sons and group names, but had no idea of how to play a record. "How do these work?'
I told her "Just like a CD but bigger, slower, and with a needle instead of a laser."
She didn't know how a CD worked. She just knew you put it in the slot and sound came out. All the mechinicals are hidden from view. So, she learned two things that day by watching an LP go around.
BTW, my LP's ARE cult objects.
Yep!
Me too! Got about 200 originals. Part of my legacy to my heirs. In some 20/30 years time, I reckon. To sell of course. May make 'm a pretty penny by then.
I shitcanned hundreds of LPs when I moved. They were too heavy to bring and I couldn't even give them away.
Something is wrong here. War, disease, death, destruction, hunger, filth, poverty, torture, crime, corruption, and the Ice Capades. Something is definitely wrong. This is not good work. If this is the best God can do, I am not impressed.
I sort of identify with D.H. Lawrence on this one. He didn't approve of radio and had "serious reservations" about the gramophone. I've made it so far as CD but it stops there for me.
OTOH, I'll bet that you enthusiastically embrace flush toilets?
Science marches on.
Something is wrong here. War, disease, death, destruction, hunger, filth, poverty, torture, crime, corruption, and the Ice Capades. Something is definitely wrong. This is not good work. If this is the best God can do, I am not impressed.
Something is wrong here. War, disease, death, destruction, hunger, filth, poverty, torture, crime, corruption, and the Ice Capades. Something is definitely wrong. This is not good work. If this is the best God can do, I am not impressed.
Barracuda wrote:The latest fashion accessory here in California are those USB memory cards. People have taken to wearing them around their necks on lanyards
That fad's passed here, luckily. These days you need to be seen with at least 3 phones, busily juggling 'm about. Inputting on one, talking on the other – on the speakerphone of course, so that everybody can enjoy your stupid conversation, and listening to radio or MP3 from the third. All simultaneously.
Too late! Our house is full of it, bric a brac, antiques, curiosities, you name it, we've got it!
I mean, just look at where I live! How many people do you know who live in an ex prisoner of war hut?
First people deny a thing, then they belittle it, then they say it was known all along! Von Humboldt
Too late! Our house is full of it, bric a brac, antiques, curiosities, you name it, we've got it!
I mean, just look at where I live! How many people do you know who live in an ex prisoner of war hut?
