Thomas L. Friedman’s The World is Flat: A Brief History of the 21st Century has been a well-read and oft-quoted book on the impact and effects of globalisation. It was first published way back in 2005 when Google was not even 10 years into existence. The iPhone, and as a consequence the smartphone category, was still in conceptual stage. Facebook had just launched, but only in the Harvard campus. YouTube had just launched, but was yet to be bought by Google. Only Amazon was more than a decade old, but still largely focused on selling books and music CDs. Long story short, digital was advancing, but it hadn’t become a way of life.
It’s difficult to control when you have deep pockets. Without deep pockets, automatic constraints come into play and make you want to turn down the volume. What you mention for music players is now true for many items viz cameras, cars, phones, holidays, etc. Guess the pandemic had a role to play in the same. Maybe you can write a book on it rather than Thomas or Sam.
True that, Sanjay. Hadn’t thought of the impact of the pandemic also being a contributor to this phenomenon. And you give me too much credit when you say I could write a book. Doing a fortnightly is testing me enough already. :-)
It’s difficult to control when you have deep pockets. Without deep pockets, automatic constraints come into play and make you want to turn down the volume. What you mention for music players is now true for many items viz cameras, cars, phones, holidays, etc. Guess the pandemic had a role to play in the same. Maybe you can write a book on it rather than Thomas or Sam.
True that, Sanjay. Hadn’t thought of the impact of the pandemic also being a contributor to this phenomenon. And you give me too much credit when you say I could write a book. Doing a fortnightly is testing me enough already. :-)