We (As a Society) Peaked in the 90s
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We (As a Society) Peaked in the 90s
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#2I was hoping this would be more fleshed out as an article, but the sentiment is understandable.
Want to throw some of my knowledge of digital music, as you called it out specifically.
In the late 90s most digitally arranged music production was relegated to trackers (think Amiga trackers) and sequencing samples and loops, because the storage simply didn't exist.
Then that would be committed to tape, sometimes on a 4-track, sometimes on studio-quality tape, sometimes on ADAT.
Fully digital music production like we have now was out of reach for most people until roughly the early-to-mid 2000s, when you see an explosion of people, even in local music scenes, quantizing drum parts and using virtual instruments (usually VST) that would normally require tens or even hundreds of thousands in hardware.
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#3The author is in their forties or fifties. They’re forgetting one important thing; they were young and the world was in front of them.
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#4A thought I often have - older millennials and younger Gen X have a unique obligation to fix certain parts of society because we are the youngest generation old enough to remember how to operate in and enjoy a world that wasn't A/B tested into a gray, lifeless background hum.
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#5The author is in their forties or fifties. They’re forgetting one important thing; they were young and the world was in front of them.
Every single 'it was better in the X0s' is actually 'i want a tween/young teenager in the X0s'.
Everything else is post hoc rationalization
I'm jealous of my kids since they are so much better off in every way
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#6The author is in their forties or fifties. They’re forgetting one important thing; they were young and the world was in front of them.
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#7This Douglas Adams quote is still undefeated:
1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
2. Anything that's invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.
3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.
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#8The 90s were shit.
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#9> We used tech without letting it own us.
This was, and is, a personal choice.
You can call me a judas goat if you want for spending my whole life building the things I would not use, but that is the nature of the game.
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#10This is true, and I think a good indicator of its truth is that basically all generations agree about it. Even Gen Z, who weren’t alive at the time.