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The Future of Music

When everything is content and content is priced at nothing, what’s the value of music? An attempt to wade through technology, the present digital landscape, and hopes for creators.

Why would anyone write about the future of music?  

Even a seasoned futurist must sound like a fraud to claim a mainline on the future of music — mostly because music is so unpredictable. Who could’ve predicted The Beatles? Or Nirvana? Who can predict what makes a hit, let alone repeat the formula? And when you magnify that wide unknowability by the relative infinity of the Internet — which is where music (mainly) exists now and where any idea of music might stick — you’d have to be very cocky — or desperate — to make predictions about the future of music.   

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