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The Museum of Endangered Sounds

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Re: The Museum of Endangered Sounds

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Voltaire said that in the future the most valuable thing will be silence.

That was my first thought when reading this headline: do they preserve silence? But he's absolutely right. After light pollution, noise pollution is probably the second most ignored type of pollution, and quite important imo.

Re: The Museum of Endangered Sounds

#19

How about the sound of children playing outside? The sound of a baseball popping into a well-worn leather mitt still exists, but is becoming awfully rare. It ain't tech, but it's a byproduct of tech.

It's at least as much a byproduct of bad city planning and car-centric design, I'd say.
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