[discostu]

I don't doubt that ebook will be here eventually, but after hearing that solar power would be a viable alternative en mas energy source in "five to ten years" for 30 years, that cancer would be cured in "five to ten years" for 15 years, and that offices would be paperless in "five to ten years" for 20 years I'm simply never going to buy into a 5-to-10 prediction again. Eventually of course all of these things will come to pass and the last people to make the 5-to-10 prediction will be hailed as geniuses with amazing forsight, but I'll be around to remind people that they were just the latest guy to make the exact same prediction (not that anyone will listen, nobody ever listens).

Actually LPs and CRTs are hanging pretty tough. BestBuy has a 17" CRT for $99 bucks. And LPs are running about the same price as cassettes (in the world) over on WhatAreRecords.com, given the hord of turners on the market these days I think LPs are making a comeback, but I'm not making any prediction.

[js1138]

I still have nearly 500 LPs tucked away, but I don't listen to them. Every once in a while I digitize one of the ones that isn't available on CD. A couple of months ago I found a spoken word recording of a Virginia folk tale that my father told for years. It was recorded at 78 rpm (approximately), and I no longer have a turntable that plays 78s. I digitized it at 33 rpm and used Sound Forge to speed it up. Lots of cool things already here.