Fabrizio del Wrongo writes:

The great publishing industry will be the publishing of motion pictures instead of print.

Motion picture libraries will be as common as private libraries – more so.

Theatres will have the same relation to these libraries as the spoken theatre today has to the printed copies of dramatic works.

By their very scope and area of appeal the films must vastly outrank the stage in importance. The artistic development should be parallel since one will always draw more or less from the other.

Talking pictures will have been perfected and perhaps have been forgotten again. For the world will have become picture trained so that words are not as important as they are now.

— D.W. Griffith, 1923 (Source)

I’m all for the [personalized recording] kit concept . . . I’d love to issue a series of variant performances and let the listener choose what they themselves most like. Let them assemble their own performance. Give them all the component parts, all the component splices, rendered at different tempi with different dynamic inflections, and let them put something together that they really enjoy — make them participants to that degree . . . [This approach] compels the performer to relinquish some control in favor of the listener, a state of affairs, by the way, which I find to be both encouraging and charming, not to mention aesthetically appropriate and morally right.

— Glenn Gould, 1968 (Source)