Re(3): Radio is GONE. Posted on June 6, 2023 at 04:03:09 AM by Futurist Frustrationist
Radio's actually a broad term for exchanging information on a number of OTA bands worldwide. Of course radio's going to survive unless an unknown energy force disrupts it.
If you're talking about AM and FM which has been used mostly today for public information and entertainment, that's likely but no more predictable than speculating if our rotation will keep gravity working as it has here since Earth was created and sent on a spin.
As many changes as I've seen since being an adult for little more than 60 years, I don't assume much of anything will be free of drastic change.
We saw what happened when FM became widespread, essentially killing AM in this country but for those picking up the crumbs of that low quality but far reaching signal band. Then when TV happened, it added the VISUAL to our senses, welcome MTV, goodbye record promoters calling Music Directors. Then we saw how quickly man, especially Americans, developed satellites to replace the long lines of the mid 20th century affilliates and losing their audience to interim cable companies, now being replaced by direct internet connections on smarter wireless TVs.
Not sure what will be next but I bet whatever WIFI's doing for us now will be replaced and if the Democrats have anything to say about it, it will be virtually free just like interstate highways. I totally dont understand how my car's GPS can tell within 50 feet whether I'm in the right lane or pointed in the wrong direction when I just exited 30 seconds ago--telling it to a satellite whose back end tells me I have to turn at the next right and it even gives me the street name because I made a wrong turn!
And this new facial recognition software can compare me walking down the street with my facebook photo. Even George Orwell didn't imagine that one!
I really doubt 'radio' as you support yourself in it will be anything like it is, with affiliate 'stations' duplicating efforts by manually playing the same 500 songs that others are in the next town or next state. So inefficient!
We're gonna face the same thing in transportation, energy, retail sales, food production and distribution. I just couldn't possibly imagine what my grandchildren will face just a couple decades from now supporting themselves with the skills they're about to be taught in high school by teachers who learned their textbook methods 50 years ago.
Its like this merry go round we're on is spinning so fast, we may get thrown off and not be able to get back in because we just can't change skills that fast to meet the changing environment so we can pay next month's mortgage.
This internet thing is going to kill the local radio star and I don't think you guys will even see it coming! What's coming next after Audacy? Replies: There have been no replies.
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