“Like all tools, modern technology has produced some wonderful moments in music and also some horrors.”
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Seriously, we are in the midst of the convergence of voice and data and that is challenging the infrastructure of the telephone companies. There are huge commercial interests in the basic technology, but even more so in content delivery and control of content.
It is only by the rational use of technology to control and guide what technology is doing that we can keep any hopes of a social life more desirable than our own: or in fact of a social life which is not appalling to imagine.
The technology available for film-making now is incredible, but I am a big believer that it's all in the story.
The spoken word was the first technology by which man was able to let go of his environment in order to grasp it in a new way.