@RickiTarr I still listen to LPs and read paper books. What has changed most for me is TV. I hardly watch program TV. If I watch anything, it’s usually streamed.
@RickiTarr it's music for me. Youngest kid just sang a cover at school based on music I played for them growing up. Eldest makes own based on folk songs I sang at bedtime. Middle and I played in a brass band together. Kids and I have a monthly music dump to share our findings, which would have been practically impossible w/o digital music, esp. now we're apart. Books would be a close second
Most important, I'd have to say graphic design, given that I did it for a living, and that wouldn't have happened without the transition to entirely digital work.
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Music.
My phone now has a copy of my music collection on a storage card a half the size of a postage stamp. And the quality is all good now. Over 800 albums even in studio quality.
No more slushy mp3 just to have it on the go.
Forced to choose one: Music. Sometimes, it's all I have, and
never ever lets me down. There's a song for every mood, every up or down or in-between moment, and discovering great new or new-to-me music refreshes that promise. Music is a blessing.
@RickiTarr for me it is undoubtedly digital photography. The freedom to take lots of photographs as my daughters grew up, to share them with distant relatives and latterly to copy old (1910 ~) albums and ‘rescue’ damaged images. This transformed my interest in family history and inspired conversations with elderly relatives about their childhood memories. Oral history, restored photos, Wikipedia and Google Earth. What a combination!
I remember seeing a tech talk in the 80's where they were talking about the future video on demand. It seemed ridiculous at the time since the best connection anyone had was a 58K modem.
Music. I won an early iPod, burned most of my records and cds, and the rest is history. I play music all the time now. Having almost every song at my fingertips has been miraculous.
Books, I still love the real thing (from the library).
Graphic design, it is cool, but I don’t use often .
TV and Movies, I love the choice and freedom, but not that important to me.
@RickiTarr Hard to pick a fave, but what cracks me up is how little of the “21st Century” had to elapse before they all arrived—only the graphic design one in recent, depending on how you interpret it. I was customizing my own radio station on LAUNCHcast in 2001, downloading movies regularly by 2005, all-in on ebooks by 2010, cord-cutting TV by 2013…
@RickiTarr Of those, on demand tv has definitely been the biggest change for me. I don't tend to watch tv live very often, so being able to watch everything at a time of my choosing is very helpful.
Streaming music is also helpful, but given that I also still buy music it's not quite as big a change, I suppose.
I still read paper books and watch dvds, though, so the others aren't such a big deal.
@RickiTarr Personally, graphic design has been the most important since that’s what I do for a living. We’ve come a long way from Photoshop on the Mac ii.
@RickiTarr In recent years, books, specifically audiobooks. I've always liked them. When I was a kid I had an abridged version of H.G. Wells The Time Machine on tape that I played until it wore out. But books on tape were either abridged or needed a LOT of tapes, and were expensive.
So I was happy to have them go digital, especially in the past 5 years or so, when menopause totally effed up my concentration, making it hard for me to sit down with a book and read.
@RickiTarr Books! Being able to read on my iPad and make the letters much much bigger has been a lifesaver. Okay, a sanity saver.
I can’t read print books any longer, my eyes just will not focus on them. I definitely miss the full sense experience of books but once I start reading I’m immersed in the story and that’s enough.
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