Can You Imagine Life without Your Ipod?

Great things come in small packages. A revolutionary piece of technology was introduced on October 23, 2001.

With the hoopla of Back to the Future freshly renewed, think about how portable entertainment has evolved over the years. In October 1955 when Marty McFly turned back the clock, it was just prior to the time when you could hold a transistor radio in your hand.

Eventually, on-the-go entertainment was joined by television to a small degree and recorded music to a higher extent with boom boxes and Walkmans. Carrying your favorite music with you on cassettes became a staple of the 1980’s.

Analog technology gave way to digital means of keeping music on your person starting first with the compact disc. However the capacity of music you could carry was only bound by a variety spanned by 90 to 120 minutes per cassette or 80 minutes on a disc. Lugging around the case of tapes and CD’s got old.

The Next Big Thing Could Be The Smart Mirror

Once Steve Jobs and the Apple gang unleashed the ipod on a public hungry for a moving music library, days of options were now open. Going beyond that, the smart phone now has the ability to access enough content to keep you occupied for the rest of your life without repeating anything.

At a moments notice and with a good signal that obscure song by Petula Clark you may have heard one time in your life can make a cameo. Follow that up with a little Game of Thrones and the chasm between then and now looks more like a dimple.