"What we have now is the best, because everything gets better all the time. Therefore old technology is not interesting." Not so sure we do (non-expert here).

"What we have now is the best, because everything gets better all the time. Therefore old technology is not interesting." Not so sure we do (non-expert here). I suspect certain choices were made in the past, often as a result of hardware limitations, which have now become too hard to change. The only examples I can come up with right now are music related; midi encoding implies a discrete pitch class system with semitone spacing. Work-rounds are needed for micro-pitches. CD format reflects the limitations of video tape in the early digital recording era. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/44,100_Hz http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/44,100_Hz http://support.ircam.fr/docs/om/om6-manual/co/Microintervals.html http://support.ircam.fr/docs/om/om6-manual/co/Microintervals...