An insightful observation about Spotify; being able to find and listen to music any time, from any time. From: All the Songs Are Now Yours, Dan Chiasson, New York Review of Books, June 9, 2016
“The brutal winnowing
of the past, selecting perhaps two dozen pop songs a year, a few albums - this
vast over-simplification, this canceling of all that culture deems tangential
or unimportant – is now itself a thing of the past.
Kids growing up in this
environment are having a genuinely new human experience; nothing in the past is
lost, which means temporal sequence itself – where the newest things are close
and most vivid, while the oldest things dwell in the dark backward and abyss of
time – gets lost.
Everything exist on one
plane, so it is harder than before to know exactly where we stand in time.”
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