Rock concerts of the future

A technology reporter sees a day when the music industry abandons "leasing licenses on intellectual property" and earns its money from exotic technology-enhanced concert experiences.

Currently we have multi-camera concert streams and the ability to "telepresence" sounds (which may one day allow the blind to drive). But he visualizes live feeds from special eyeglasses provided to concertgoers -- as well as footage piped directly to their eyeglasses. "Telepresencing technology and the raw hunger of fans for free and novel entertainment is in an arms race with corporate ingenuity's efforts to commodify increasingly abstract souvenir experiences... In response to freely available live music, the industry must work harder to create points of artificial scarcity and more intimate/intricate pay-to-play options."