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Audio Journal: It's 2053 ... Who is Reading Your Books? · The Daily Writer

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  SPEAKER_00: I don't know if this ever happens to you, but once in a while I get on a kick where I listen to a lot of music by a certain artist for about a month and then I get bored with it and I move on.
• 0:11
  SPEAKER_00: Oftentimes this happens to music that I haven't listened to in a long time.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, lately I've been on a Richard Marks kick.
• 0:18
  SPEAKER_00: Now, if you are around my age, so I am 46, if you were a child of the 80s or anywhere near there, then you are probably familiar with Richard Marks.
• 0:28
  SPEAKER_00: He was a pop artist, I guess sort of pop rock really.
• 0:32
  SPEAKER_00: He was popular in the late 80s and early 90s, and he had five or six songs that were just absolute monsters.
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  SPEAKER_00: They were like number one singles, and he was all over the place, as far as music goes, for you know, probably five or six or seven years.
• 0:47
  SPEAKER_00: And he hasn't had any really hit songs for a long time, but back in the late 80s and early 90s, he was really, really popular.
• 0:54
  SPEAKER_00: And I've gotten back into his music lately and have been watching a lot of YouTube videos where he's sort of doing his old hits and listening back through a lot of his uh first few albums and so forth.
• 1:04
  SPEAKER_00: And I really, really love his music.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's of course it's just screams late 80s and early 90s, but I really, really like it because he's a phenomenal songwriter and a great musician and singer as well.
• 1:16
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm sitting here looking at my computer and I've got Spotify pulled up, and I'm looking at his debut album from 1987, which is simply titled Richard Marks.
• 1:25
  SPEAKER_00: And I think it's pretty crazy that here it is the year 2020, and I'm listening to music that is 33 years old.
• 1:32
  SPEAKER_00: And all of us do that.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know, good music never really goes out of style, and it's not uncommon for people to listen to music that is much older than that.
• 1:39
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, the Beatles are still enormously popular.
• 1:43
  SPEAKER_00: Elvis is still enormously popular, and that those are even two or three decades earlier than that.
• 1:49
  SPEAKER_00: So as I'm sitting here thinking about Richard Marks and music from the 80s, it makes me wonder who's going to be reading our writing in the year 2053.
• 2:00
  SPEAKER_00: That's 33 years from where we are here in the year 2020.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know, one of the most amazing things about being a creator is that people can enjoy your creative work, not just now, but years and decades into the future.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I think that's pretty cool.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know, most other professions don't have the benefit of knowing that people are going to experience what they do many decades into the future.
• 2:27
  SPEAKER_00: So I want to encourage you today, and I want to remind myself as well, that what the stuff that we create today isn't just for today, it's for years and decades into the future.
• 2:38
  SPEAKER_00: So when it comes to the year 2053, who's going to be who's going to be reading the things that you write?
• 2:45
  SPEAKER_00: Who's going to be reading your books?
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  SPEAKER_00: Who's going to be listening to maybe podcast episodes will still be around then?
• 2:51
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
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  SPEAKER_00: But who's going to be reading and experiencing the content that you create?
• 2:55
  SPEAKER_00: We've got to get busy creating, we've got to get busy making things that are going to be meaningful to people, not just today, but years and years into the future.
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  SPEAKER_00: The stuff that we create will be around forever.
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  SPEAKER_00: So what are you creating today that people many years from now are going to experience?
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  SPEAKER_00: See you in the next episode.