I'll be honest...I failed this challenge miserably. I think it took all of ten minutes after class for me to get into my car an start listening to the radio.
Worry not though! I have excuses.
The most immediate excuse for not listening only to streaming music was that my audio on my macbook is borked. On top of that even if I wanted to listen to digital music, I don't know where my iPod is (trust me I searched frantically this morning).
This brings me to the reason why I believe this challenge is difficult to complete (or why it's easier to use traditional media at times vs. new media)
The first big hurdle is the fact that, as we discussed, streaming information online is still relatively new in relation to some of the traditional means it looks to replace. That also means that unless you're an early-adopter, with mounds of cash to get the fastest internet access in as many places as possible - chances are your life is still rigged to run off traditional forms of media and entertainment. The fact that I still have CD's and almost 10 different devices that can play them, it's never hard to crank some tunes. I can also pull music out of the air when I'm in the car, so come on - I need music in the car BOOM there it is.
I know that it's becoming easier to stream content online and forgo the more traditional media in the air and in our hands. The problem is that we're still kinda wired to press one button and my TV comes on with something to watch (and I think we're still a bit off from content becoming that easily and conveniently accessible online)
So until the internet has reached a state where it's everywhere, and it can power my entertainment as easily as plugging in my TV or charging some batteries in an iPod or CD player even...then it's going to be difficult to live of the series of tubes alone.
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