For better or worse: 10 things that will be gone in our lifetime?
I was sent one of those 10 things that will be gone in our lifetime list from a family member. There are a variety of (plagarized) versions circulating around for decades, but I decided to comment on this specific list. Who the original author is seems to be unknown. I consider these to be wordsmithed, politically motivated lists. One common theme is that there is various types of creative works that will "disappear" because people aren't paying. The reality is that while these creative industries are changing, people still want to pay. Failures have been largely the fault of the incumbent industries themselves. If there is no more for-profit music, it will be because the currently unnecessary * recording * industry kills it for composers and performers. The recording industry have been fighting a battle for decades against modern technology which makes the * recording * industry redundant, and allows all the money for the continuously commercially viable * m