https://www.preservationsound.com information and ideas about audio history Tue, 31 May 2016 17:48:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.preservationsound.com/the-future-of-audio-1962-edition/ https://www.preservationsound.com/the-future-of-audio-1962-edition/#comments Tue, 31 May 2016 17:48:49 +0000 http://www.preservationsound.com/?p=8520 In May of 1962 “AUDIO” magazine celebrated its 15th anniversary.  IIRC, AUDIO was the more consumer-facing half of what had initially been AUDIO ENGINEERING magazine; the AES Journal being created sometime in the 50s to carry the more professional articles.  Anyhow, for their 15th, AUDIO asked some of the experts of the time to weigh in on THE FUTURE OF AUDIO.  Harry Olson, certainly one of the greatest inventors of sound equipment who ever lived, had some comments that struck me as being incredibly prescient.  I’ve never seen this reproduced anywhere, so check it out, enjoy it, share it, and take a minute to speculate on where this is all going.

 

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