4 Best Songs About Technology

You can learn about technology by listening to songs. Music gives listeners a taste of the world of technology. Here are some of the best songs that talk about technology.

Talking Heads' (Nothing But) Flowers

The lyrics of this song talk about a post-apocalyptic world where modern technology has been eliminated. The song's protagonist and lead singer, David Byrne, is torn between appreciating nature’s beauty and his dependency on items that have disappeared, such as fast food and lawnmowers.

Kraftwerk – Pocket Calculator

This artist wrote several legendary technology songs, including Computer World, The Robots, and The Man-Machine. In this song, the artist praises this device and how it's useful in his life.

Algorithm – Muse

An algorithm is a sequence of computer-implementable and well-defined instructions designed to solve different types of problems. The artist sang about his anxieties regarding technology and how algorithm systems render us obsolete in this track. In an interview with Forbes, the artist stated that he was thinking of the emergence of artificial intelligence and how it's taking away artists' jobs when writing the song.

Alive - Edge of Paradise

This song talks about how humans are caught up in the current digital world. The artist explains how humans are obsessed with monetary gain and convenience that people are now sacrificing their humanity. People have gotten lost in virtual reality and forgotten what interacting with real humans feels like.

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The End of Owning Music?

As technology evolved, the music industry has had to evolve with it. First came vinyl, then tapes, but where the quality and convenience of tapes left something to be desired, CDs swooped in to fill those voids. Ever since, most record stores slowly stopped carrying any format other than compact discs, and at a time they were thought to be the be all end all of at-home music enjoyment. And then, the dawn of the digital era.

MP3s were a big game changer, and while at first most downloaded music was done so illegally, music producers started to clue in on the potential profits of digital downloads and started offering consumers and alternative to physical formats. Those record stores that once had to clear out their vinyl displays in favor or smaller CD displays are now doing the opposite, as CD sales are now few and far between, with many audiophiles moving back towards the superior sound of vinyl. But will it be enough for those record stores to survive?

Whereas once the music industry was all too happy to offer digital downloads as an alternative to physical formats, disruptors like Spotify emerged, offering an alternative to outright purchasing music. Many, if not most consumers of music now opt to pay a monthly fee in exchange for the rights to stream as much music as they choose, as opposed to purchasing an album or a song at a time. It’s an already dominant trend that’s only growing, begging the question: Is this the end of owning music? Time will tell.

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