How Will We Listen To Music?

In the digital future, we'll all be drive-time Puff Daddys

Imagine that by 2025 music will be available on command, as will anything else that can be reproduced in the digital domain. Most of the recorded music in the world will exist on a variety of servers, and it will be possible to download instantly any piece of music to whatever portable playback device you might be using. If you're in your car and want to hear (Sittin' on) The Dock of the Bay by Otis Redding, you'll be able to call it up instantaneously on a playback device that will make today's MP3 player look clunky. And if you want...

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