Today: some excerpts from a piece by C.W. Vadersen as published in the AES journal. It’s a good thing to remember that early audio technology developed not out of the entertainment industry but from the communications industry: primarily, the telegraph. As important to us as music and art maybe, the need to communicate is primary (or at least secondary only to the 4 F’s: Feed, Fight, Flight, Sex).
How to we use our senses, and in what proportion? (in Vadersen’s opinon…)
Our interpersonal connections grown exponentially with each new ‘cable’ that we run
The arc of communications technologies circa 1962. It’s almost impossible to wrap the mind around the growth we’ve seen since then. How far down on this list would ‘Blog’ appear?