[NewMusic] acoustic vs. electronic

[Chris Broderick]

--- Barry Threw <bthrew at gmail.com> wrote:

> Look, I don't think this is that far fetched. I know
> that we were just 
> pulling fantasy objects out of our asses earlier,
> but my only 
> postulation on the future of technology is that it
> inevitably evolves. 
> Just looking at history it seems pretty obvious to
> me that all 
> technologies evolve, and are superseded with higher
> ones.

I think the contention with your comment comes with
the word 'superceded', just as my contention with your
previous comments had to do with the word 'obsolete'. 
Technology evolves, but it doesn't always do so by way
of eliminating past technologies. The wheel still
exists, and is still a valid piece of technology,
regardless of whether it's a vulcanized rubber tire or
a donut shaped stone (There are technologies where a
stone wheel would be quite useful, such as
millstones).  It may have been improved, but it hasn't
been superceded by anything.  Just as my clarinet is a
variation (I hesitate to say improvement, though for
my money it is) on the technology of a duduk.  People
still play duduks, though.  It's not a winner take all
situation.

-Chris


> Jacob Lindsay wrote:
> > --- Barry Threw <bthrew at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> >> Yeah, it might seem like it.  
> > 
> > It certainly does
> > 
> >> But 
> > 
> > Oh lord.
> > 
> > the wheel has also
> >> evolved over the 
> >> years.  Tires etc.  Point being that one of the
> >> first wheels is 
> >> conceptually 
> > 
> > I'm not talking conceptually.  I'm talking about A
> > WHEEL.
> > 
> > similar, but is certainly less
> >> developed.  
> > 
> > It goes around and around.
> > 
> > Look at the 
> >> whole  wheel assembly of a car....brakes etc.  
> > 
> > I'm not talking about the "whole wheel assembly of
> a
> > car".  I'm talking about A WHEEL.
> > 
> > It's
> >> gotten significantly 
> >> more complicated, 
> > 
> > It goes around and around.
> > 
> > however this technology is such a
> >> simple building 
> >> block that it is hard to change it drastically. 
> > 
> > Gee.  You think?
> > 
> >> More complex things or 
> >> things with abstract purposes have the freedom to
> >> evolve more.
> > 
> > "Abstract" like your postulations on the future of
> > technology?  You're right, I hope that DOES
> evolve.
> > 
> > :)
> > 
> > 
> >> b
> >>
> >> Jacob Lindsay wrote:
> >>> --- Barry Threw <bthrew at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> There hasn't been a single
> >>>> technology in the history of 
> >>>> the world that this has not happened to
> >>> The Wheel
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Jacob Lindsay
> >>>
> >
>
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> >>>
> >>>
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> >
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