[BC] IBOC Query

[Robert Meuser]

Phil Alexander wrote:

>On 1 Feb 2006 at 20:52, Robert Meuser wrote:
>
>  
>
>>Glynn Walden, who won an NAB engineering achievement award 
>>for his work in developing IBOC and is now VP engineering 
>>for CBS radio, told me that analog would not be turned off 
>>"in our lifetime".
>>    
>>
>
>The prediction in 1946 was that by 1960 automobiles would be
>obsolete because every family would have their own personal
>helicopter.
>  
>
Was that from someone who developed the helicopter and had hands on 
experience?


>Circumstances change, and in emerging tech, they often change
>quickly. That is a fact of history.
>  
>
The certainly do and you keep choosing to ignore that point.  And then 
there is the law of unintended consequences which is really what causes 
progress.


R