So I recently got iTunes match for my somewhat massive music library (just under their limit but that should inspire me to get rid of some of the musical fat in my library soon). It is a little slow and buggy, but overall I like it–I like being able to access the whole library from my iPhone. I had an interesting thought on the way to work today. I also have a Bluetooth audio thing in my car (a Christmas present from my wonderful sister).
I thought about the signal traveling through the blagosphere (a legitimate layer of the atmosphere hidden between the exosphere and the thermosphere), and then to my Bluetooth device, then through the wire into the car audio system. I thought, “what if there was a way to bypass all those steps–what if music could go strait from it’s source to my car audio system.” Within about a second of thinking that, it occurred to me that such technology had been invented over 100 years ago, and it is called “The Radi0.”
Granted that is a massive oversimplification, I have so many more options now (I can pick any song of 25,000 instead of just listening to what they stream, shuffle etc), it is just interesting to think about how technology trends work. A constant disconnecting as new technologies come out, and then pulling back in as they are combined into single devices.
-professor ¡schism!