Many of you already know that the legendary David Bowie died on Sunday, but in this article we will not talk about this, but about a prediction he made in 2002 regarding the future of music.
Then David Bowie was convinced that in 10 years the world of music will change a lot, that people will use the internet to listen to music, that it will be available in audio streaming services with impressive collections and that artists will have to tour to earn serious money from music.
His prediction came 2 years after the launch of iTunes and it turns out to be completely true, he being convinced that fans will be able to interact much more easily with the stars close to them and that they will be able to share all their creations with them more easily.
Some of these things are facilitated by several audio streaming services, including Apple Music, which offers fans the opportunity to follow personalized channels of artists in which exclusive content is published, including parts of some songs not yet released.
The absolute transformation of everything that we ever thought about music will take place within 10 years, and nothing is going to be able to stop it. I think the potential of what the internet is going to do to society — both good and bad — is unimaginable. I think we're actually on the cusp of something exhilarating and terrifying.
The reality is that the Internet has profoundly changed the world we live in and continues to do so daily, but few realized at the beginning of the 2000s how big the change would be, and David Bowie seems to be one of those people.
