How Technology Has Changed Our Lives - 1323 Words

If you would have told an artist back in the 1970’s that in the future there was going to be music exclusively made in a computer, with no use of actual instruments; that musicians would have portals such as iTunes, Pandora, Spotify or Soundcloud where the audience could listen to their music as they pleased on the go in their mobile phones or even their watches, they probably would have called you crazy. However, this is the reality we live in nowadays. Almost sixty years after that time and, as you walk around a campus, a mall, a park, or anywhere else with large flow of people, you will notice people being in contact with music through several ways, most ways that you observe were not even thought to be possible a century ago.†¦show more content†¦Within the next five years phonograph parlors spread across America ushering in the first era of the recording business. At the same time, most major cities around the globe had at least one phonograph company that made r ecordings. This was the beginning of the music record labels as we know them today. Back then, people in a listening parlor were forced to listen to the music that other people chose to, not only their choices. This had its good and bad consequences. On one hand, people were excited to finally have access to reproduce music and listen to it on occasion; on the other hand, it wasn’t that comfortable to have to listen to every other person’s choice of song and have to attend a particular place just to listen to music. However, the fact that people had to share the listening lounges made it more likely for people to be open for other songs and genres that otherwise they might have not ever listened to. This aspect is one of the major things that has changed due to innovation. With the rise of electronic and digital albums, you can just pick and choose a specific song you want from an album and play it as much as you want, sometimes disregarding the other songs in the record, which you might enjoy as well. You might never realize you would enjoy them because you have that ability to pick which song you want to listen to the most anywhere, instead of being exposed