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Techno! Techno! Techno! Techno!

Stuart Maconie, Q, September 1994

New! From the makers of Betamax, the eight-track cartridge, and the Sodastream™ — more faddish hardware that'll be redundant within six months! Or will it? Scary developments such as CD-I and the Internet have music-consuming Luddites baffled. But what are the real benefits of fiddling with Prince? How will the music biz be affected? And, asks Information Superhighwayman Stuart Maconie, just who is Interactive CD-Ron?

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