We have become more isolated with each passing day. A telephone has reverted to being a cipher. It is now a 'smart phone,' where few people actually talk to each other by the miracle of voice communication. More and more cell phone communication is via 'text' in a shortened code for on the fly keypad fingering that is, at times, more akin to Morse Code that written English. The Smart Phone may also serve as the ipad, iphone and ipod combined. Many of us as mere pods. ♘
Imagine not knowing what an album is.
Americans ever-so-slightly favored their music in digital rather than physical form in 2011. This is a first. It's not a last. Physical albums declined five percent last year after declining 20 percent the previous year. Total digital sales rose by eight percent in 2011. Even Stevie Wonder can see where the trend lines lead.
At about the same time that America embraced digital over physical, I said goodbye to my compact discs. Like any good atavist, I did not step willingly into the future. I was pushed there by Santa Claus, who left an iPod in exchange for my being good for goodness sake in 2011.
Anticipating the future was much easier when I didn't have as much of a past.
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