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Originally Posted by Katsunami
This is so true. With regard to music, I would have prefererred to live in the 50's to 70's, because I'd be able to visit some bands live, that do no longer exist now (or one or more of the members are even dead already).
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That's a matter of personal taste, though. Music is also more diverse that it was not too many years ago, because of the internet. And indie bands make their money from live performances far more than selling mp3s on Amazon for 99 cents. It's a rapidly changing landscape, but the one thing that seems a sure thing is that there will be more diversity in the art than there used to be.
(Technology does one thing to pretty much everything, eventually: reduces the barriers to entry in to the market. A brand new technolgy is hand-made, each one custom. Then, small time assembly line production, and prices drop a bit. Then mass production, and prices drop a lot. Then, as the technolgy really matures, mass produced customization, and higher prices, but still affordable.)