ABSTRACT
This chapter presents some closing thoughts of the concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of the book. The book addresses the people and technologies in the business of sound recording in the past, present, and future. Music and audio industry professionals, by necessity, tend to keep their noses to the workaday grindstone, however, market forces and personal visions often cause them to keep one eye focused on future technologies. These can be new developments (such as advances in digital, touch and audio technologies), rediscovering retro trends and techniques that are decades old (such as the reemergence of tube technology and the reconditioning of older devices that sound far too good to put out to pasture), or future technologies that excite the imagination. There will be a decent handle on the forces that might shape the sounds and toys of tomorrow, but it's getting increasingly harder to make specific predictions in this fast-paced world.
