Not all that technology replaces is obsolete

100 years after horses were declared “obsolete”, the recreational horse industry in the United States alone is $40billion. Yes, that’s with a “b”. Sometimes a technological replacement reveals a deeper underlying value. From printed books to vinyl records, not everything rendered obsolete vanishes.

Kathy Sierra

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I got into an interesting aesthetic argument with a friend last weekend. Basically I don’t love how Ableton has perpetuated the loop paradigm ad nauseum and want other technology to emerge so that we have a richer landscape of tools with which to make music. She argued that people against technology have always lost (progress always progresses) and so this is kind of a rebuttal to that point…