In article posted on CNET titled “10 music-tech trends that will shape the next decade” CNet blogger Matt Rosoff details tend trends he thinks will change how we interact with audio in the future. Here i will discuss a few of these that i think are the most interesting and substantial changes that he lists.
The first of the changes that Rosoff details in his article that i though was interesting was the switch from downloads to streaming software. In the last couple of years, starting around 2005 and the founding of YouTube which effectively reinvented the home movie many Internet users began to see the switch from downloading to streaming. For many, the substantiality of this change does not seem so innovative but for those of us interested in teh inner working of technology. we understand that years of development needed to take place before our internet connection would be able to handle streaming content. A more recent explanation for this switch could probably draw a link between recent government initiatives to stop piracy.
Another interesting initiative that Rosoff believes will take place within the next ten years and has already started to become present within society is the idea of “fidelity rather than file size”. While in the past we generally tended to upload files in their most transferable form, forgoing any concerns or aspirations for quality, in today’s technological age we are able to produce and transfer higher quality content. An example of this can be seen with YouTube yet again. One of the trademark achievments ofthe innovators at YouTube was becoming one of the first streaming sites to allow the uploading of high quality video. Although we tend not to think of these advancements as monumental, they truly are, years of though went to creating networks strong enough to handle the high quality content we produce and want to share with others.
Rosoff also believes that where all of this high quality video and audio content is coming from is also changing.Much like the ideas expressed by Lawrence Lessig, Rosoff believes that society is on a monumental shift in which large corporations and artists with substantial financial backing are not the only ones being able to create content anymore. He believes that a new generation of artists from the unheard masses of consumers has emerged and is already beginning to fundamentally change the way we see music and video content. Below are some examples.
Source: CNET- 10 music-tech trands that will shape the next decade
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