"Frank Dresser" wrote


Radio is a mature technology. There's not much difference between the
current radios and the radios of ten years ago. But there hasn't been
much
change in refrigerators or washing machines lately, either.

Hi Frank, your point is understood, but not supported by that argument -
advancements in technology are affecting everything, especially radio.
Software defined radio is opening entire new applications in communications.
And washing machines, btw, are using vastly new technology to use a fraction
of the water formerly required; they no longer twist/agitate during wash and
use transmissions to literally spin things dry, reducing dryer energy
required. These are just examples that technology continues to advance at an
amazing rate, and it is impossible to predict how far or what effect this
will have on a given process or media, etc.


now, they get it on TV and give it to the news networks. The message will
trickle down to radio and the internet later. And that message will
usually
be just excerpts from a TV speech or TV press conference.


Whose to say that shortwave radio may not one day be integrated as a form or
source of messaging into the internet-streams for use by cellphone
information systems? Or even in reverse as a method of backup communications
when cell towers are not available? The interface between technlogy and the
free market make anything possible, and only the timing remains the deciding
factor. When we want something, it's soon there for us. Sometimes
technologies "hang on" even when they seem outdated, because they are
popular, offer an alternative form of entertainment, and/or have a backup
capability that would be too costly to replace, once abandoned.

Jack