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Physical Media Still Rules
A tech nerd’s romanticised view on physical media, media tech and its meaning in the digital world now and in the future.
We often think of history as books, events, buildings, and paintings or photographs, but depending on perspective, it’s everything. Who gets to say that something wasn’t a relevant part of humanity’s story, the story we have been recording — remember this word — for thousands of years? Sometimes deliberately, sometimes not at all. Sadly, in most schools, the true essence of where we came from and where we’re going is never really taught. We try to condense millennia into a few books, making a generation’s story but a few pages, when in fact it’s worth an entire lifetime of studies. Studies of not history, but stories, devoid of the bad and boring reputation of traditional history.
My weekends tend to be pretty quiet, and if you want to bet on something, then it’s me either taking a walk that inevitably involves me wondering into the LEGO store, or my local Tower Records. What do the two have in common? Well, besides creativity, plastic, lots of plastic. Either in brick form or pancake shaped vinyl records. Amazing, magical places that I can totally get lost in for hours if you let me, that is. On this occasion, I got lost more in my thoughts though than the shop as I was…
