Where Angels Fear
2 min readMar 31, 2021

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For the last twenty-odd years, people have ... with tedious regularity ... tried to excite me about the next new thing that will revolutionise everything; only for me to have to wearily point out, once again, that either it has already been done long before even I was, let alone they were, born ... or else that it was a solution looking to solve a problem nobody axtually had.

I promise you that the bald man's head (and similar) will make a comeback; it's just too 1960s Terry Gilliam does the Beatles' Yellow Submarine for the 'hipster' generation of the nearing future (whatever it calls itself) to ignore — they'll probably wear pre-ripped tie-dye dungarees whilst listening to it.

Managing their collections will be done with NFTs, because NFTs are blockchain and blockchain is cool because it's distributed and distributed is cool because ... erm ... it sticks it to the man (or something) ... and everyone wants to be cool, right? And hip. And with it. Or whatever.

It'll be the best of both worlds: your own, personal; collection that you manage ... without any of the tedious management that goes into with managing things, beyond submitting your NFT identifier/signature into a green-baldheaded-man-as-a-service service that will (re)order your NFTs according to whim, or (and this is what will be totally rad about it) at random! No, it's *not* like streaming. It's nothing *like* streaming. With streaming you get random music based upon what you've listened to (and rated) before, but *this* will be listening to (get *this*) your own personally curated collection but like totally randomised by a service that you completely control yourself by telling it which of your saved playlist(s)n you want to listent to right now or to select random songs from random playlists — not the same thing as streaming at all, because you *bought* the songs first.

You'll be able to play them on any device you like with an app (like the green-baldhead-man app, for instance) and you'll be able to store them anywhere you like (in the cloud, on your device, on your computer, on your TV, *anywhere*) and it will just play the nearest NFT to you for each song.

I should set up a business to develop this idea and bring it to market, shouldn't I? It'll be huge, I etll, you ... HUGE - I'll be able to sell it someone like, oh, I don't know ... let's say Spotify ... for millions (if not billions).

Audio streaming as a service with NFTs ... it can't fail!

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Where Angels Fear
Where Angels Fear

Written by Where Angels Fear

There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live and too rare to die.

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