You know, it occurs to me that if you were to go back in time to the year 1985 and tell someone that in ten years time Audio CDs would still be around, he’d probably say “uh – yeah, thats what I expected”
BUT if you were to then tell him that the alternative was to connect to a global network of computers and ‘download’ your albums direct to a walkman the size of a cigarette packet he’d say “yeah right – wierdo!”
and you’d say ‘No its true! I swear! Also, everyone has a phone the same size in their pocket, and you can play music on that too! Not to mention that arcade games are a thing of the past, because everyone has in their home a computer capable of rendering incredible 3d graphics almost indistiguishable from real-life.’
And he’d say ‘look, just get away from me. I don’t care about your wacky theories!’
and you’d get really angry that he didn’t believe you, and you’d club him over the head with an old betamax deck, and accidentally kill him, and then realise he was your grandfather, and as your essence started to disappear, you’d say to yourself
‘hang on a tic… he was a bit young to be my grandfather – and wouldn’t I recognise him if he was? I mean, its only ten years ago’
And then you’d wake up in bed and it would have all been a dream.
Or would it?
Call me.