Does New Technology Equal the Demise of Radio?
April 24th, 2009
I’ve been researching different ways of distributing audio content and came across an interesting article. In this piece the author is responding to “old school” radio people who are predicting the end times for radio as new technologies (in this piece cell phone radio) come about. Yes, cell phone radio! I’ve been playing with it for the past few days and there are some good services out there. The best in my opinion are those that don’t require the user to download any software and don’t use the data network (incurring data charges on the users end) but simply function like a phone call (which only consumes a users minutes). But the technology is a bit young and from my experience also a bit ‘buggy’…but a cool idea!
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Thanks for the linkback.
It is true indeed that new tech should complement old. The scorched earth policy of companies like Foneshow demonstrates a overly simplistic and unsustainable view of how all this will play out.
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Hey Andrew. No problem, I liked your piece. I completely agree that we can’t go about creating the future by obliterating or disrespecting the past. Though I do like Foneshow’s service the best out of the ones I have tried (both for content and technology). But it’s a young industry and it will be interesting to see how it matures.