I'm sure there's lots to be said about how the uquity of music production equipment (i.e. a laptop) is turning laptop-produced music (electronica, hip hop etc)

I'm sure there's lots to be said about how the uquity of music production equipment (i.e. a laptop) is turning laptop-produced music (electronica, hip hop etc) into the new folk music; music made and circulated among small groups of people. And the whole idea of 80-style music "industry" with huge stars and huge physical distribution networks and huge amounts of money being made by a tiny proportion of people was probably just a technological oddity that was never going to last more than a few decades.