ome of the other assumptions that the new technologies will upset may lead to more trouble. Missouri Knights of the KKK v. Kansas City tells a cautionary tale. In exchange for giving a franchise to a cable company, Kansas…
When I say the new technologies will shift power to listeners, I mean of course listeners who can afford the new technologies. But what about consumers who can't buy a computer, a digital recorder, a printer, a cbook,…
"hough the perceived defects of are many … they can be more or less subsumed in two words: vast wasteland." Newton Minow, then chairman of the FCC, coined this pejorative in 1961, and it has (justly) stuck. But if…
Opinion Articles: With opinion articles as with music, we'll soon have many more options than most consumers will want to slog through. There's something valuable-as well as limiting-in the fact that your daily…
Introduction Text is even easier to send electronically than music, because it requires much less space, and therefore less transmission time; it can even be transmitted feasibly through today's relatively slow…
The new distribution technology will do more than just make music cheaper and easier to get. It will also radically change what music is available. I've already mentioned one way this will happen: The music databases…
What It Will Look Like I want to start by discussing how the new technologies will change popular music. These changes may be less politically momentous than the similar changes that I think will happen in print and video.…
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