08.03.06
Things I think about as I fall asleep…
What will music be like 500 years from now? Will it be super-electronified or simple and chant-like? Or will it go through both phases and end up somewhere completely different that I can’t imagine right now? What will they think of our music? Will they even know what it sounds like? Or will they just be left with the lyrics, little knowing how much they’re missing?
When I meet my great-x-18-granddaughter in heaven, will I find out that somehow we both love the same song, but that we know it in entirely different forms? When she sings me her version, will I wonder how a sane person could ever enjoy something like that, or will I see in it the same beauty she does?
And how much storage space will it take to hold all of the music we have now, plus all the music written between now and then? Not to mention all the movies, books, paintings, and whatever else that get created. Is that why only the best (or most popular, I suppose) stuff survives? Lack of storage space?
Ryan said,
August 4, 2006 at 2:24 am
remind me we should talk about this stuff.
i made a spreadsheet to try to compute how much it would take to store everything i ever encounter - what my eyes see, text i read, everything i hear, etc.
i think it should extend nicely to your question about storage.
Ev said,
August 15, 2006 at 9:52 am
hehehehe
i love how your thoughts went from beauty to storage space
thinking about what you said makes me sad fearing that i won’t be able to keep all my memories with me forever…
i still have the harddrive from my first computer, a 133MHz, somewhere in my house, in the hopes that one day i can recover my memories from it (are 1,000 hanson photos worth it?)
hehe