Kate Bennett wrote: > > My first instinct, in reading Bowie's comments was remembering how some said > that computers would replace humans...well we know how quite the opposited > happened, computers created a whole new industry...
One thought I had was remembering how people said that books would no longer exist because they would be read on computers. Every bookstore I go into now is packed with people looking (don't know how much buying is being done), so there's obviously still interest in owning books to hold and carry around and read wherever. Of course, reading is a visual experience so very different from hearing music, but rather than replacing books, staring at computer screens may actually result in people appreciating books more than they did before. > I do agree that people will always want togo to live shows. That is the > origin of music, before it ever turned into something about a > business...people getting together to sing & play together... Yes, that's magical. Even in sophisticated venues I can imagine being in the outdoors with others around a campfire and being captured and bound together by sound waves. It's a pleasantly primitive, connected to humankind, feeling. Debra Shea
