Napster was started in
June 1999 and for many marked the beginning of an era of free digital music.For the next 10 years the music industry would try to stop people from downloading free, and what they claimed to be, illegal music.
In
January 2009 the largest online music store in the world, Apple's iTunes, announced it will offer all 10 million songs
DRM free, allowing people to download and share their music without any Digital Rights Management.
It took the music industry 10 years to change to a new model, to understand a new landscape, and to learn to take advantage of it.
The newspaper industry has been in
sharp decline for the past couple of years. If blogs, which really started gaining momentum in 2005 (my own opinion), are to blame and if they follow the same slow path of change as the music industry will not find a way to survive in this new free digital landscape until around 2015.
YouTube was
created in 2005 and really gained ground in 2006 and 2007. The television industry is just starting to feel the heat, and following the path of its brother, the music industry, has tried to conform the new media to old ways. If it follows the same path as its brother the music industry, we will not see a real revolution in the way television is viewed until 2016ish.
The conversations about the changes that have been happening and continue to happen in education around these new models of learning, and digital landscape have only been going on since about 2002 (my own opinion).Which means we're looking at 2012, if education follows the same path as the music industry, before we see some real change. Until then we keep chipping away at it...as it's little changes that lead to big ones.Just a thought!
