Content impulses - audio and video in its purest digital form - will be generic and usable by all nano-radio and nano-video implants.
We won't have digital files, hard drives, CDs, memory sticks, or any of the storage media we use today. Instead, all music, speech, and video that has ever been cataloged will be universally available at-once and from anywhere.
Everything that can be listened to or watched will be cataloged as content and requests for any of this from nano-radio implants will be known as content impulses.
Content impulses will be available via a worldwide wireless technology which permeates the globe and allows for extremely fast and accurate transmission.
By activating your nano-radio you will be able to choose anything ever recorded and stored: programming from the past, current programming or future scheduled events.
Not Really Radio But An Incredible Simulation
The idea of talk and/or information programming will exist, but you’ll choose by personality or subject, not by station. There will be little need for "stations" as we know them since content impulses will be ubiquitous.
All radio stations ever did were deliver programming to a select geographic area. Since the future will hold no geographic boundaries, the current system of geographic protection allocated by the F.C.C. license assignment scheme will no longer be necessary. As a matter of fact, the F.C.C. will no longer exist.
Once content impulses are requested and used by a person’s nano-radio, the impulse will leave behind a "memory" of being accessed which the nano-radio will be able to interpret and use for offering further suggestions of audio, should the a listener wish a continuous genre of music. Your nano-radio will learn what you like, an idea pioneered by the Music Genome Project and Pandora.
There will be no record companies. There will be no need to download music files from the Internet. There will be no royalty issues. Artists will sell their content directly to users.
Requests for music or audio with active copyrights will be noted by the system and artists will be compensated automatically based on a percentage formula that draws from a fund created and maintained by the users of nano-radio receivers.
Someday your children, or their children will acquire the ultimate control over their audio entertainment.
Marshal McLuhan was a Canadian scholar and philosopher who famously said, "The medium is the message." Our technology will one day make it possible to amend that statement by adding "The medium is the message…and you are now the medium."
