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tromprof

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Came across this commercial while watching the news...

Read the following quote from John Philip Sousa regarding the introduction of the phonograph with suspicion, predicting:

"a marked deterioration in American music and musical taste, an interruption in the musical development of the country, and a host of other injuries to music in its artistic manifestation, by virtue - or rather by vice, - of the multiplication of the various music-producing machines."

taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-Luddism#Views

Maybe he was right: just listen to that which today passes for "music" [:o]

Some very distantly related links on technologies that have the potential to disrupt the status quo, but also induce Luddite-like reactions:

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/03/10/2045212/seattle-bar-owner-bans-google-glass-in-advance

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/08/st_dangerous_solowheel/ and http://solowheel.com/ (refer to the "In the News" video in particular)

Chris [H]...[Y]

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