Audio has been around since, I suppose, the spoken language. The difference now is distribution and availability. Audiobooks, podcasts, smart phones, voice controlled home speaker systems, connected cars, and who knows what will come next.
Maybe I just lived in the city too long but I can't get enough of the birds. "You'd think I live in the bird...
In a nutshell, the answer to Why Now? is because we can. Sure, microphones and book narrators have been around a long time. But...
The only source of knowledge is experience-- Albert Einstein If I had to give only one piece of advice in this first section of...