Asimov Imitation

There seems no question but that the Cd's are going to be out of this world in time. Because of our portable music playing devices, music can be shared, played, and downloaded; digitally. Cd's take in space, and the more you get, the more space they take up. All you need for more music on your computer or portable device is hard drive space. Look what happened to records. They were about a foot in diameter, and were just too big to be taken anywhere. The megaphones that you needed to be able to play them on were extremely expensive and space consuming. A famous quote by an anonymous figure once said "necessity is the mother of invention, and invention is the mother of necessity." Whenever you need something, you can invent it. But when you invent it, you need something to take care of that invention. Think about farming during the industrial revolution. When farming was done by hand, it took longer to harvest crops. When plows and machines came along to do more work than one man could do in a week, it put a lot of farmers out without a job. As the years go by, people will start of new ways to share and listen to music, we put the "old" stuff away and forget about them. They have done what they needed to do, but who needs them anymore? The invention of the iPod has been one that has changed music for the years to come. It has made record companies more popular because of the recognition they get... but what about records sold? There are still people who buy Cd's. But over the next few years, I predict that the sales will drop and all music that is listened to will be electronic.