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.
I'm an audio guy. I like headphones in, walk in the woods with Pepper, and lay those decibels on me. But it's not always...
In a nutshell, the answer to Why Now? is because we can. Sure, microphones and book narrators have been around a long time. But...
I want to write my own stuff, and, you know, it would be nice to put myself in it. But I would like to...