[BC] the Deja VU meter is pegging (was: IBOC)

[Brian Urban]

Well, I don't know about all this new "digital' technology.  The last time I
checked, my ears were analog.  But then, I'm by far not the latest model


On 7/18/05 9:31 PM, "Kevin Tekel" <amstereoexp at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Phil Alexander wrote:
>> Oh how little you know of publishing. Horace Greely would not comprehend
>> it either.  Why do you suppose Harris Intertype bought Gates in 1957?
>> The handwriting was on the wall even then.
> 
> I know plenty about publishing.  I was referring to the technology of the
> medium itself, not the business aspects of creating what goes on the
> pages. Just look at how even magazines have advanced compared to
> newspapers -- today's glossy full-color magazines are lightyears ahead of
> the black-and-white newsprint magazines of yore.... yet, newspapers were
> mostly black-and-white on newsprint 100 years ago, and they're still that
> today.
> 
> And since you talk about all the computerized digital technology that goes
> into making today's "analog" newspapers -- isn't the success of that
> method an argument in favor of preserving our current scheme of using
> digital technology to put an analog radio signal on the air?  Another
> example of that is the motion picture industry -- they have all the latest
> digital technology on the world, but the final product is still "analog"
> photographic film run though a fancy version of Edison's movie projector.
> 
> And then you have the household landline telephone.  Where's that fiber
> optic running into the home like everyone predicted a decade ago?  Once
> again, no matter what kind of fancy digital technology Ma Bell may be
> using, you're still using Edison-era analog technology when you pick up
> your phone to make a call.
> 
> And what about cars?  I don't see those flying atomic-powered cars that
> were on magazine covers in the '40s, and I don't see those zero-emissions
> electric cars they predicted we would all be driving by the year 2000.
> We're still rolling rubber tires on the ground and burning fossil fuels
> through the same combustion cycles that Herr Otto and Herr Diesel invented
> a long, long time ago.
> 
> In fact, we _tried_ electric cars, and it didn't work.  Now, the best that
> they can make workable are hybrid cars.  Hmmm... "hybrid".  Where have we
> heard that word before!?
> 
> 
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