I think that technology has both introduced new sounds but also allowed an increasingly painterly approach to recording music as you can now paint over what you've done and more and more refine an existing performance.
All we have to do is to peel the shrines like an onion, and we will be with the king himself.
The future will be determined in part by happenings that it is impossible to foresee; it will also be influenced by trends that are now existent and observable.

