Stuff

Saturday May 14, 2005 - 12:06PM EDT

I don't like stuff. Specifically I am talking about papers and physical storage media. I don't want to ever have to deal with papers for anything. Everything should be electronic. All email, no more paper mail. The only paper I want is from the books I buy. But everything else I want to get rid of. Quarterly reports, bills, transaction records all should be electronic. No more paper. It has gotten to a point where I feel that eletronic storage mediums are as reliable as paper. Also I want all music and movies stored on high capcity solid state storage medium. None of this CD or DVD bullshit anymore. I know we have that for music already but the DRM is way to restrictive making it better to buy CDs. And the sound quality of downloaded files are lower than CDs, although you really can't notice all that much. It should all be downloaded to massive solid state storage no bigger than my mp3 player. All of my CDs and DVDs take up too much got damn space. Oh yeah, I would accept periodicals using paper. Basically anything that I would read long stories in because display technologies are just no comparison to paper for reading books yet. They need ultra-high resolution small organic LED screens before I start reading books without paper. When these screens do come out, they will be so high resolution that you will not be able to tell the difference between printed text on paper and the screen. Current computer screen can produce around 130 pixels per inch whhile printing is done at 300 dots per inch. Pixels size can vary based on the dot pitch of a monitor. Smaller dot pitch the better. So eventually the dot pitch of a monitor will be as good or better than printer's dot size and also have as good or higher amount of these dots per inch. So when you view the two you side by side can't tell the difference. This will be a great day no doubt.

A note about music and movie downloading. Downloading is a paradigm shift in how people consume entertainment. Yet the industry doesn't want to accept it. With downloading the overhead for producting physical medium and everything else that goes into it drops to almost nothing in comparison to downloading over the net. Yet somehow for downloading they want to charge the same as physical medium, it makes no sense to me. Think about when recording technologies came out and entertainers resisted it because they thought it would take away from their live performances (or something like that). Performers had no money from recording before that, they had to go out and earn their money through performances. So it has to change again. They might still be able to earn money through recordings but not nearly as much as they did before. They will hold on as long as they can but eventually downloading will be much cheaper than it is today and the DRM will relax. If those bastards know what is good for them.