A comment on the iPod.

The iPod turns ordinary life — riding the bus, waiting in line at the post office, staring at a spreadsheet for 12 hours a day — into cinema. Levy describes the work of sociologist Michael Bull, who, when studying the habits of fans of the iPod’s great ancestor the Sony Walkman, found that people liked to think of themselves “as imaginary movie stars” playing out scenes dictated by the music in their ears.

Guilty as charged – though I never realized this was a common experience. In a way, I’m glad to know  it is.

This, from an article at Salon on the iPod. Not much insight beyond the above and I pretty much disagree with the author that the iPod has ruined the way I listen to music. I do still listen to whole tracks and whole albums, despite the array available on the digital device. Apparently his attention deficit problem is something he needs to work on.