On 20 Years of Soundtracks to Life

Over at the BBC, a teenager named Scott compares an iPod to a Sony Walkman (read it here ). Scott is amused more than baffled by this obsolete technology, although it takes him a while to realize that a cassette tape can be flipped over. On July 1, the Sony Walkman will be 20 years old. It's hard to imagine what urban life was before the Walkman. Sony first introduced portable transistor radios in 1957 and these proliferated rapidly. With an earphone (like this ), it was possible to carry mu

On 30 Years of Soundtracks to Life

Over at the BBC, a teenager named Scott compares an iPod to a Sony Walkman (read it here ). Scott is amused more than baffled by this obsolete technology, although it takes him a while to realize that a cassette tape can be flipped over. On July 1, the Sony Walkman will be 30 years old. It's hard to imagine what urban life was before the Walkman. Sony first introduced portable transistor radios in 1957 and these proliferated rapidly. With an earphone (like this ), it was possible to carry mu