The paradise of infinite music
Make that “Ever-receding paradise… .” “The Paradise of Infinite Storage” was the title of a panel at the “Pop [Music] and Policy” conference at McGill University in Montreal. Great title, so I downloaded it… . Princeton Professor Ed Felten was on the panel and wrote about it in his blog. The premise: The panel’s title referred to an interesting fact: sometime in the next decade, we’ll see a $100 device that fits in your pocket and holds all of the music ever recorded by humanity. Airy storage predictions make me reach for my calculator. And I’m calling it: baloney! Infinity is bigger than you think, padawan How much music has been recorded by humanity? No one… (via sneaka’s shared items in Google Reader)