He says: "The internet's completely over. I don't see why I should give my new music to iTunes or anyone else. They won't pay me an advance for it and then they get angry when they can't get it.
"The internet's like MTV. At one time MTV was hip and suddenly it became outdated. Anyway, all these computers and digital gadgets are no good.
"They just fill your head with numbers and that can't be good for you."
Now that I can actually read what he says and how he says it, boy, he is pretty closed-minded and nonconformist about the internet. The internet's completely over? Prince, it has only just begun. All these COMPUTERS, he includes, pretty strongly implies that he thinks the very internet itself and everything that has to do with technology is bad. WTF is he talking about "They just fill your head with numbers and that can't be good for you."??? Like I said before, completely retarded... and wishy washy.
While time-wasting websites and gadgets with supposedly "new" features being doled out every single year or even twice a year I can agree about, the internet as a medium of communication is changing the world, most considerably for the better. Television is one-sided and completely governed by the powerful. The internet is free back and forth communication, dominated by everybody. Does anybody have any idea what potential that is? Right now at least, it's about the truest form of democracy the modern world has seen, only it's globalized and instant, so this has NEVER been witnessed before. In the near future, the Hollywood industry as we know it could die, and the major point of view would lie not in the hands of the few who insist that everyone wants to watch a straight white male protagonist with the same safe recycled plots over and over, for example, but most any kind of movie made from anywhere in the world by anyone could be majorly successful, once the financial distribution of the internet evolves from its awkward, shaky infant stages of today. We'd learn more about the world around us from more points of view than ever before.
Ordinary peoples' voices are reaching everywhere, and this kind of scope has NEVER happened in the past. More people can convince people to take action and do good in the world. Maybe Prince should get this through his thick, oversized head and stop being a technophobe. It's so typical to doubt/fear what's new and changing, just for the sake of it being new and different.
Of course, net neutrality is still an issue, and I fear it could be a bigger issue in the future once everybody starts taking the internet more seriously, but I'm confident in the public's attachment to the internet and worst case scenario, hackers...
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