iPod nation

I did not truly understand how the iPod had become a cultural phenomenon until a couple weeks ago. Maybe bit late to join the iPod nation. After having dinner with a couple of friends we had a half hour discussion about music which centered upon the iPod. Almost everyone at the table owned an iPod, and the ones who didn’t either planned to purchase one or were seriously considering it. It was unusual for my friends from a technological nation (Korea/Japan) owned one. The funny thing is that no one had really bought anything from the iTunes Music Store all they really had to worry about was getting non restricted music from one iPod to another, and there was near universal disregard for how the iPod synchronizes with a computer, and in specific how such synchronization is only one way, and with only one computer. But the world is changing, technology is changing, and people are changing. We’ve always shared music with our friends. Tape players let us make copies. CD burners let us make exact duplicates. Portable music players let us convert something we had that was not very portable into something incredibly portable, something easily sharable. And the internet allowed us to expand our communal scope to a vast degree.