Backbencher

I tuned into RNZ International for a little while and I was actually pretty surprised about their radio. They were talking about quite a few of the same subjects that we talk about here in the US. The show that I caught was an interview where a guy was explaining how technology has impacted our lives. He was mostly telling how greatly our recording media has improved over the last fifteen years. When I first tuned in, I caught him talking about CDs and DVDs being able to store more information than the old vinyl tapes and cassette tapes. He was also telling the listeners that the CDs and DVDs not only being able to store information, but the information is of far better quality and are also more convenient since don’t have to be rewound and they are smaller and store easier. The host was asking about what will be the next step will be in our media. The interviewee mostly focused on home media, but eventually he got into digital cameras and how they have improved our ability to capture our history. The old cameras were clumsy and the pictures that they produced faded with time. I’ve seen enough pictures of my parent’s childhood to know that. The central theme that I got from this was that we are able to maintain our history far better than we could before. Whether it be music, movies, or pictures, we want to store our history so that we can share it with friends and family.