MP3, what an interesting book to read for this course. The book overall was hard to read but it made a little more sense when we talked about it in class. Looking at how music is squeezed down to 4 mega bites is a really interesting concept. Only 12% of the song is actually what you are listening too, and the people taking apart of the song is actually removing all parts that you can’t hear. The idea was that MP3 music was compressed to be listened too in an efficient amount of time. Is the music really efficient if we aren’t efficiently listening? Why is music that is utterly compressed popular with this generation?  It goes back to the topic of music being impoverish, music you can listen to without having to pay attention. Music affects us in different ways, why would we want to take advantage of it?

Another interesting find within the book was when they talked about Bell Labs experimenting with the cat, and using the brain to demonstrate hearing sound waves. Scientists would talk on one end, and send pulses into the cats brain. According to MP3, scientists would also use elephant heads to experiment with hearing. Why were these techniques popular? It bottles my mind when I ask this question because the techniques were quite outrageous. It is intriguing to think that most experiments that are happening, you actually don’t know are occurring all around the world.