With this issue, HFN starts a new era - new Editor, new look, new approach. The timing is spot-on, and not just because the magazine is about to celebrate the completion of its first half-century. Rather it's apt because we're smack in the middle of a major upheaval that will forever change the way we deal with audio, video, photography, radio, phone usage - you name it. But it's not all for the good. Although we read, every month, about the resurgence in vinyl usage, the continued survival of stereo and valves, consumer backlash against the curse of being an early adopter, and other suggestions that reason will rule, this is not the case. We will be screwed, and big time, by the changes. And while the more philosophical of social commentators will say, as they probably did to the original Luddites, that progress and change require 'sacrifices', well, I think we've made enough.
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