Tom Rizzuto

Suddenly, you didn't hear people talking about hard-to-find music, because nothing was hard to find.

Music from all over the world, any genre you wanted to listen to, was available instantly, right on your phone.

That's a cool thing.

And look, I love streaming media.

I'm streaming movies, I'm streaming podcasts, I'm streaming TV.

I'm making a piece of streaming media right now.

But...

I do think that all this streaming creates some issues that we want to think about.

First, I'm going to be honest with you.

I'm a little nostalgic for the way things used to be.

I think we're missing something when we don't have the physical media.

We're missing the adventures that we used to go on to find it.

We're missing getting it.

We're missing keeping it in our collections and showing it to our friends.

That's big stuff.

And I'm not the first person to say this, but artists and creators need to be fairly compensated for the art they create, as well as the streaming companies and the media conglomerates making money too.

Everybody needs to be financially sustainable for this all to work.

And it's also important to note

that in this age where it seems like the algorithm is just feeding us the same stuff over and over again, we need to figure out how to amplify the voices of traditionally marginalized groups.

All of this is very important.