> Michael Chapman wrote: > >> >>This may all be OT, but if: >>-ambisonics had developed twenty years later >>-if there had been no patents on it >>would the World have been different? >> >>Michael >> >> >> > > > Michael, I don't want to be unpolite. But some people should stop this > whining about "what would have been if" and go on, at least by now. > I wasn't whining. I was posing a question. A question that I do not know the answer to.
> Patents didn't play a role in the failure of Ambisonics. > I don't think I said they did. Even if you take my question as some sort of disguised statement (which it wasn't), that response ignores the 'time shift' in the question. Personally I find "what if" questions very revealing, if not directly useful ;-)> I remember one very good essay on what might be the situation if the thermionic valve was invented after the transistor . . . Perhaps it is cultural ... as I also remember a university entrance examination that asked candidates to discuss the hypothetical situation that children reached adult stature (or ?more) at some given quite early age. It would have been interesting to discuss some of the points that this thread has raised. That seems to be a lost hope. The reactions engendered have though increased my understanding of various broader issues, so I cannot complain. Michael _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list [email protected] https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound
