dorian fraser moore

The future of Music in the Age of Spiritual Machines

by Ray Kurzweil

http://www.kurzweilai.net/meme/frame.html?main=/articles/art0597.html

I'm actually at a bit of quandry as where to put this link. In likes might be more appropriate. This is a very interesting forward thinking piece on the future of the music industry, and teh resaleable value of intellectual property. Whilst I think that Kurzweil's anticipation of strong AI and nanotechnology are enthusiastic I'd really like to believe in his dates. I think his analogy with the mobile phone industry is great: If you make the barrier to entry so low that its more time consuming to get roudn it than access it then people will use it. The problem with digital media downloads is, well, they are too expensive. And transactions too cumbersome.

Read it.