Audio VR—Did Video Kill the Radio Star?

摘要

Today we see a global trend emphasizing the visual over other media. Visual media pervades our lives in the form of text, images, and video. Already in the mid-18th century, humans were fascinated by visual and often animated projections, such as magic lantern shows. With the advent of cinematography, silent films pulled crowds into the first movie theaters. However, the dominant media for information exchange was the ubiquitous newspaper, created in the 17th century. Starting in the 1950s, television gained dominance in media for both entertainment and information exchange, its dominion challenged only recently by digital streaming platforms. Thus, visual information is a longstanding, major source of knowledge transfer for a large portion of humankind, and both its ubiquity and the public it reaches grow as technology advances.