My breakfast club asked about the future of music; my take.

In twenty years...

We'll be listening through...

• Wireless ear buds for the poor.
• Literal ear buds for the middle class (in the ubiquitous Lasik era).
• Bass-range full-body mods for immersive world players.

Everything touchable/viewable has the option of a sonic identity as printable electronics become free/cheap. This means all goods have theme songs, animation, and spoken (Chinglish?) instructions built in; and we're talking about products, not even their packaging. Early cacophony in retail (all those products talking, singing, emoting) leads to more polite sound triggers and real-time, inter-product/brand negotiation for which gets to play what when and for whom.

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