Puggo wrote: People have stopped listening to music? I'm not sure about that.

Go back and read the next line of the statement...

-Aside: Yeah should have phrased it, paid for the music they listened to. The logic I was going for was people have 'x' amount of money to spend on entertainment and 'y' amount of time to consume it in. In the 70s early 80s (pre-explosion of home video), home media cash expenditures predominantly went into the record industry, throughout the 80s and into the 90s that began to shift as more and more video content became available to the public. the DVD shift partly is one of the factors which tipped the scale away from the music industry. Why listen to an album when you can consume the entire run of a sitcom, or why not watch your favorite movie over and over instead of your favorite music album. This argument overlooks many significant factors. insert grain of salt. Most making this statement from personal observation, I used to track down weird sound acts, and now I don't. One topic of interest was replaced by another because of a variety of factors. Similar thing with the public, tv/movies replaced a significant portion of music's audience time, because home viewing became more commonplace. End Aside-

Now drop in the ability to make stuff, and music/tv/movies get tossed aside as more people make objects. The Entertainment Industries will lose to the Engineering future.

...yes partly.