Music in science fiction is interesting because while we all have some vague ideas of how The Future has to look (things flying cars, neon colors, glass, for the most part), I don't think there's anything like that for music
A Serious Thought about the future of music is that I think pseudo-retro music like with Vaporwave/80s-style synthwave will become increasingly dominant, different generations will get nostalgic for different periods, create music from modern sensibilities that mimics the perceived qualities of those past times
@elomatreb it's really fascinating seeing how people get nostalgic for different parts of different eras - 80s synthpop is such a huge thing, but 90s revival makeup is so much more popular than faux-80s makeup amongst the people I've seen. I always wonder how people decide which aspects of an era define it & are worth mimicking
@c8rz Similarly interesting to see will be what people will nostalgically associate with this period of time
I wouldn't even know what to say for the 2010s
@elomatreb yeah, I'm really excited to be bewildered by the nostalgia of 2010s kids, like my parents are about 90s stuff!
I can say pretty confidently that Instagram makeup will be a nostalgia thing aesthetically but I have no clue for anything beyond that. The ubiquity of the Internet I guess??
@c8rz All I can think of is it'll appear really strange to us, but it will be incorporated in synthesis in the ever growing corpus of human derivative culture and do its part to create ever more unique and strange creations
@elomatreb it's almost like Chinese whispers! Each generation's idea of what an era was like gets shifted until it doesn't resemble the original era at all any more. Like mythology, except with teens being excited about the 1980s
@c8rz @elomatreb what do teens think the 80's was like?
@elomatreb @c8rz well, it's not entirely wrong. I think people have an excessive impression of what it looked like, since most of the media that people today take their impressions from are things like music videos that for obvious reasons showcased the most outrageous of the styles.
@c8rz Yeah, that puts it really well