Music on Demand: Bell Labs’s Ken Thompson, the Father of Unix, Has Invented a New Technology that Could Mean Never Having to Buy a CD Again
What I would like to see is a central library of every recorded work. I’d like to sit down, pick pieces and compare versions, and I’d like to do this from home. One way would be via cable TV. The cable companies want to do this with movies, but that won’t be commercially viable for years. They’re aligning before the medium is ready. But with compression, the medium is ready for music right now. You could get 50 audio streams in one TV channel.