Gabi Bruckner

Hey Sammi!
To answer your question, yes. Selling an official CD equates an easier distribution of royalties. So if we cut out the music piracy issue artists/labels still made more in physical CD sales.
The issue with Spotify, etc. is that it’s a “stream”. So think of it as a rented out song. You don’t own the copy, you didn’t physically buy the…[Read more]

Hey Sean –
The music industry will definitely fully stray away from CDs. There’s a common pattern with tech formats in music consumption over the years. Vinyl was replaced with cassettes. Then cassettes were replaced with CDs. Then CDs were replaced with mp3 players. Mp3 players were replaced with streaming services…
It’s especially harder now…[Read more]

Daniel – thanks so much for sharing.
It’s definitely unfortunate for recent-grads like myself to graduate with a music-related degree and face this pandemic head on. You study something you love for 4 years, have a plan to work in it, and then it collapses right before your eyes. I mean, I do try to keep it positive – but it surely has left us…[Read more]

Thanks for sharing Chand! Really enjoyed how you outlined both benefits and troubles with the concept of smart cities.
One of the biggest smart city initiatives that comes to mind is California’s ban on the sale of gas cars in 2035. Obviously once this ban goes into effect, electric vehicles will become far more common in the state of California.…[Read more]

Misha – really enjoyed reading this post! Currently, I have an Alexa. She helps me make my grocery lists, set my kitchen timer, etc while I’m in the kitchen. Having her there has been a huge help keeping me in check while I’m multi-tasking.
If I could, I would love to have Alexa-enabled kitchen appliances so I could have one continuous hub…[Read more]

Great opening discussion Amber! Certainly we’ve all dealt with our phone’s “listening” to us. And it’s not even limited to just phones…I could just simply google search some sort of product on my Google Chrome browser on my laptop, to then find an advertisement for this product on my mobile Instagram feed. Each of these devices are culprits to…[Read more]

Great post Mohamad! My dad is big into sports – football and soccer are always on rotation, but my dad also stays in touch with baseball and hockey from time to time. As a kid I’ve watched professional sports welcome technology with open arms and now the fan dynamic is so different from what it was 20 years ago. Now, you can find that each p…[Read more]