Lauren Valenti, Vogue, The pandemic is often only discussed with regard to its negative impact on mental health, but Bill Gates has pointed to COVID-19 as a catalyst for the world being digitized at warp speed. Husein Sharaf, Forbes, 1 June 2022 Getting groceries at warp speed comes with very real consequences.Īdam Chandler, The Atlantic, At the turn of the millennium, as technology took off at warp speed, the minimalism and grunge that dominated the ’90s gave way to flashy hues, metallic shine, and unabashed individuality. Or, you know, just recycle them, whatever.Recent Examples on the Web When many hands are in the proverbial pot, and business requirements dictate that technology moves at warp speed to keep up, mistakes are inevitably made by well-meaning IT professionals.
#WORP MYMIND FULL#
(If you need inspiration, our own Lars Gotrich gave it his best effort back in 2010.) Once you've made the decision to purge cassettes from your life, do be mindful of what is and isn't in print, whether physically or digitally, because you'll want to hold on to tapes whose music can't be easily or cheaply replaced.īut otherwise? I recommend piling the rest of your cassettes into a heap, setting that heap on fire, feeding the ashes to a large angry animal, feeding that large angry animal to a larger and angrier animal, shooting that animal full of cyanide-tipped arrows, setting the carcass on fire, loading its ashes into a rocket and shooting that rocket into the sun.
#WORP MYMIND UPGRADE#
My advice is to upgrade from the accursed medium in any way possible and not look back - and seriously, people, feel free to defend cassettes as vigorously as you'd like in the comments. really, need I go on? Cassettes are the worst.
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The cassette boxes are wide and squat in ways that make them extremely difficult to shelve efficiently, and if you've ever had a stack of the damn things slip out of your hand and crash to the floor.
#WORP MYMIND PORTABLE#
They're no more portable than any other format, except vinyl.
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You can't scan easily from track to track, the way you can with CDs, MP3s or even vinyl. The tape breaks, or gets wound so tightly that it causes certain players to malfunction. The tape and its casing warp easily when exposed to excessive heat. To my mind - and please feel free to craft a counterargument in the comments if you think I'm wrong - cassettes offer not a single advantage over other music media. Why? Because cassettes are, in a word, horrible. It's not the only modern music release to focus on the cassette as its primary means of physical distribution - which, to me, is completely and utterly bonkers. Next week, a band I love called Horse Feathers will release a limited-edition box set of its three wonderful albums with a bonus set of covers and rarities, and it only exists as a collection of cassettes. Can't hurt, right?Īs for commercially made cassettes, I'd have to split my answer between whether there is a future for the medium (yes, to a point) and whether there should be a future for the medium (no, there shouldn't be, sheesh).
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A shoebox full of mixtapes can give your closet just the hint of melancholy it needs! Otherwise, with the right equipment, it's reasonably easy to transfer your homemade tapes to MP3, and I'd strongly recommend doing at least that. When it comes to mixtapes, this depends on your own level of sentimentality, but I don't see any good reason to dispose of such tiny physical manifestations of your personal history. Jennifer Spuehler writes via Facebook: "Will there be a place for cassette tapes in the future? What should I do with cassette tapes - especially those beloved mixtapes - that don't have a place to live anymore?įirst, it's important to differentiate between commercially made cassettes - and their even harder-to-store cousins, cassingles - and the homemade mixtapes into which you poured your heart, soul, tears and sad, sticky hormones. We get a lot of mail at NPR Music, and amid the postage-paid crates we'll use to ship home the spring interns is a slew of smart questions about how music fits into our lives - and, this week, thoughts on cassette tapes and their utility in 2014. Enrique Iglesias listens to sweet, sweet jams on a portable cassette player, long before you were born.