04-15-2009, 11:55 AM
Dustie Wrote:1. Movies: You buy a Beta Movie, then comes VHS, then comes DVD, then comes HD DVD, then comes Blue Ray. So if you bought Star Wars in 1978ish and thought you'd have this classic to watch "forever", boy were you wrong.
Bruce Springsteen (who I'm a fan of) takes this further and realeases the Seager sessions CD but then re-releases it later with one additional song (the best one) so we have to re-buy the whole thing).
How ironic that the more technology we have the lesser the ability to retain long term information. When computers first came around in the 70's they talked about how we would be able to retain information for centuries electronically.
Actually the opposite is true. The older the technology the longer it last. The only way to keep information longer then 50 years is with paper. The only way to keep it longer then 100 years is with stone tablets.
Speaking of Springsteen, What alien took over his body after "Born to Run"?
How can a guy write such genius lyrics as he supposedly did on Born to Run and then end up writing such shit like Born in the USA? Either he never wrote any of the stuff for Born to Run or some alien pressence possed him.
I can't think of any other example that extreme. Its like Bill Shakespear writing Romeo and Juliet and following it up with Georgie Porgie.
Vllad