At 22:10 10/04/2012, Robert Greene wrote:
One thing that crosses my mind is this:
.... and a lot more...
I dont often agree with Robert, but I agree with him entirely in this posting.
Second, in the exploration of why Ambisonics did not
succeed commercially(yet), it seems to me important
to understand the whole nature of the success of technological
products. They succeed if they offer a lot but demand nothing
of the consumer mentally or next to nothing. Home computers
took off when one no longer had to program them. Believe me,
if people had to program in machine language in any sense,
or even in the DOS sense, there would be no home computer industry
on the current scale.
This is the essence of Apple's success--style and
something good happening but no effort needed AT ALL.
Rather depressing, but true.
Look for people who knew Blumlein,
Hurry up in doing this, because I think all those that I knew at EMI
who worked with him are gone.
Explanations can come after the facts are entirely clear.
Amen!
David
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