Back when I was commuting upwards of four+ hours a day (round trip), I listened to a lot of audio books. This was pre-iPod, so they were an especially welcome part of my daily life.

Then I got an iPod, and switched jobs, and now I have a very short drive to work (20 minutes) and podcasts and so on. Yet I've also downloaded a slew of audio books. Loads of them. History books, college lectures, novels I've intended to read, classics, and more.

But who has the time for all of them? Not I. I am currently listening to John Keegan's "A History of Warfare." Keegan is an excellent war historian, wrote probably the best book on the First World War, but yeesh, 16 discs of material will take forever to get through.

And then there are dozens more sitting on a hard drive. Unlistened. Unloved.

Sad.

Employ special Databurst™ technology to compress the data and then infuse your brain with it all in seconds.

Or, give up sleep.

Similar technology didn't work out so well with the blipverts in the Max Headroom pilot episode.

Well, then, it just needs to iron out the minor problems first.
But soon you'll be able to listen to all your CDs in twenty minutes.










Well, maybe not all of YOURS, but all of most people's.

I do play them on fast forward. Gets past all of the mucking about in the middle faster that way.

I would enjoy this technology. If I could just inject my head with knowledge, I'm sure I'd become addicted to the process.