Fast forward 25 years, what will audio be like?

The more we advance, the more there'll be folk like us clinging to the only viable means of enjoying music. Think of us as "sticks in the mud," doing our duty to save audio from itself; from being wholly treated as just another commodity.

Lots of sobering thought here and thanks to Sounds_ Real_Audio for making me laugh.

All the best,
Nonoise

Classical Music is one of the FEW things that is highly enjoyable AND good for your mind and soul at the same time.

I can't speak for others, having only been myself and lived my life but I do know what I've seen.
To me its the only musical genre that's not's looking back to what might have been, the love that was lost, how bad things were in Ireland,my dog died ad infinitum . Now, I love to sit and cry in my beer listening to Lady Day et al as much as the next guy, but it ain't helping me none.Sentiment is not the friend of love, it is its mortal enemy.

Bach will bring me closer to the divine than anything short of the the grave,the truly greats like Beethoven, Schubert, Brahams are always in the here and now while still always moving forward to the best of what could be .
That helps me a lot. Plus I never eat popcorn like I do when I watch TV, so it helps my body too.

Oh, I lied, Classical Music is not of the few things that can do all that, its the only thing that can do all that .

Schubert wrote,

"Classical Music is one of the FEW things that is highly enjoyable AND good for your mind and soul at the same time."

I could say the same thing about Led Zeppelin. Or perhaps Beck.

History teaches us its usually fairly easy to see what's coming...

This statement would carry more weight if the poster would provide some examples. Like he said, it should be fairly easy.

If its not readily apparent to you, there is no explanation that will suffice.