Science & Tech Quote by Kenneth Edmonds

Spoken like a working musician watching the stage lights suddenly spill into everyone’s living room. “The Internet is a whole new world opening up” carries the breathless optimism of a moment when access itself felt revolutionary: no gatekeepers, no radio programmers, no label budgets required to be heard. Edmonds isn’t dressing it up with theory. The power of the line is its plainness. “Whole new world” is not a metaphor you use when you’re quibbling over marginal improvements; it’s what you say when the rules of survival and discovery are being rewritten in real time.

The intent reads as invitation and self-defense at once. For artists, the internet arrives as possibility (direct connection, global audiences, niche communities) and as pressure (constant output, collapsing prices, attention splintering into feeds). The subtext is pragmatic: adapt or disappear. By framing it as “opening up,” Edmonds leans into expansion rather than loss, smoothing over the trade-offs that musicians were already feeling as CDs gave way to downloads, then to streaming’s fractions-of-a-cent economics.

Context matters: a musician of Edmonds’s generation saw music move from physical scarcity to digital abundance. That shift didn’t just change distribution; it changed what counted as success. Your “career” could become a portfolio of micro-audiences, viral moments, sync deals, and direct-to-fan patronage. The line works because it captures the emotional truth of that pivot: awe first, accounting later.