а потом я исчез

10:46 | 23-06-2011 | Lifeform, Media, Technology | 1 Comment

еще (1 + 2) немного о былых носителях:

“Along with being fascinating and often funny, looking deeply into the history of media can offer us insights into how things work and fail to work,” [New York University postdoctoral researcher Finn] Brunton said. “Media technologies offer narratives to us. When we build a media platform, we are offering stories of how we think the future should be, about how we conceive of thinking and communication.”

а вот, как все начиналось:

Science-fiction writer Bruce Sterling coined the term “dead media” in 1995 for a talk at a new media conference, as a way to remind technologists and marketers that their creations would not always endure.

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“Much of the new media in Sterling’s time was an attempt to sell something and move on. Sterling came to speak against the new, new hotness, by pointing his audience to … the obsolete, the dysfunctional, the has-been and never-was,” Brunton said.

но было и прекрасное:

<...> people were thinking up ways to use the telephone to transmit music. One idea was the Telharmonium, a 200-ton electric organ located in a concert hall in New York City, with enormous tone wheels that produced loud sounds that could be used to recreate symphonies. In effect, Brunton said, it was the first synthesizer, and the service was an early example of music streaming.

The idea behind the Telharmonium was that people would subscribe to a service that would allow them to call a number and listen to Telharmonium music being played live. Users would hook up a horn to the phone to listen, and the music was piped into restaurants in lieu of live bands.

  

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