{"id":313,"date":"2008-01-14T00:22:57","date_gmt":"2008-01-14T05:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/?p=313"},"modified":"2008-01-14T00:29:23","modified_gmt":"2008-01-14T05:29:23","slug":"staggering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/?p=313","title":{"rendered":"Staggering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I turn 45 this month and I am glad to be the age that I am.  In those four and a half decades I&#8217;ve been amazed to observe staggering changes in the world.  Although technology will continue to advance rapidly, and today&#8217;s children will see many changes in their lifetimes, the world may not again change in such a fundamental way.  I say that because we have crossed a very significant line: the digital line, which has enabled an unprecedented level of interconnectedness.<\/p>\n<p>The next leap will be to a &#8220;firmament of all knowledge&#8221; that will provide something approaching telepathy.  That may be some decades off, and catastrophe could intervene to prevent it.  So it&#8217;s possible that the digital line will be the last really major techno-social line we will cross for a very long time.<\/p>\n<p>Since 1963 we&#8217;ve gone from&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>8-tracks, LPs, and cassettes to CDs, MP3s, iTunes, and Bittorrent (i.e. analog to digital)\n<\/li>\n<li>Cold War, the American Century, and American untouchability to a borderless Europe, 9-11, and American decline\n<\/li>\n<li>Nixon, Humphrey, and McGovern to Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and Mitt Romney\n<\/li>\n<li>Moon landings and oil rigs to nanotechnology and spooky action at a distance\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And in the month that I turn 45, I am setting a personal record for playing gigs with the most different bands ever in one month: five.  How we get recorded music may have changed, but people still want to play it live and hear it live.  I suspect live music will remain a fairly recession-proof business.  No matter how high the seas rise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I turn 45 this month and I am glad to be the age that I am. In those four and a half decades I&#8217;ve been amazed to observe staggering changes in the world. Although technology will continue to advance rapidly, and today&#8217;s children will see many changes in their lifetimes, the world may not again &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/?p=313\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Staggering&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}