Innovation and advancement of the human race is a wonderfully exhilarating experience for both the innovator or inventor, as well as the peoples who will benefit from these talented peoples’ labours.
Some labour for love, some labour for personal satisfaction while a number do it for financial reward.
My feeling is that they strive for the betterment of us earthlings with love, deserve to receive far greater rewards than money can buy.
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Since us anthropoids have walked the earth, we have been improving on handheld clubs and digging tools, animal skin clothing and the type dwelling in which we lived.
We graduated from fig leaves to loin cloths to three-piece double-breasted suits for men, while the ladies over time left hooped skirts that touched the floor and tightly corseted bosoms, to mini skirts, no bra and then to pants.
Men dressed up it seems, while women dressed down.
Innovation and development in other spheres also had major changes to our daily lives and lifestyles, some of which we have forgotten over time.
The one new thing that affected our lives in a material way, was the subject of a popular song and this change hit us all quite hard in our relaxation spaces times.
Remember “Video killed the radio star” by The Buggles, well music videos did just that.
Music radio stations had to do a restructuring exercise as their listening audience was now being wooed by the video cassette, where you could see and listen to the artist.
Another music orientated innovation was the move from reel-to-reel taping to Super8 track tape which was bulky and ran continuously, to the smaller pocket size cassette tape.
The beauty of this advancement was that it meant you could take your own recorded music to the picnic in the park, as carting the reel-to-reel was a big undertaking and totally impractical.
All these developments in the home music arena led to the invention of all-in-one music unit with the record player on the top and below it the two tape-to-tape cassettes, cd player and tuner.
Prior to this all-in-one approach, each part of the whole were independent items linked with coaxial cables such that that backside looked like an old fashioned telephone switchboard.
One needed to know your oats to connect it correctly so that it functioned, then came the hi-fi for dummies!
When the upgrade came, out went the radiogram which was the length of a two-seater couch and took pride of place in the lounger until TV came!
Another development which has many of us more mature (older) folks slapping our foreheads with a flat hand, is the superceding of the 12 inch vinyl records by the compact disc.
How many of us happily threw them away, only to replace them with the CD?
How many thought that those vinyl in good condition would become black gold in the years to come, all because the music aficionados prefer the sound of stylus on the vinyl groove.
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