I was having an off-kilter conversation with a guy I share an office with not so long ago over fusing microcontroller chips with the human brain and the possibilities it could bring. It got me thinking about the possibility of streaming music directly to the human brain and doing away with the needs of mp3 players or streaming to your phone. However I think we're still a long way off from becoming cyborgs.
But more seriously, the future of music will become more and more focused on accessibility. Streaming to phones and other portable devices seems growing at the moment and in the future it could be possible to stream music to your digital watch. People are also caring less and less about sound quality with is a real shame. Vinyl, cassettes and even CDs sound so much richer compared to 128kbps mp3s and streamed audio that it's hard to figure out why people want to compromise sound quality for the sake of accessibility.
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