Just did an interview with WGN Radio’s Mike McConnell about the death of CDs in cars. Ford says no more CD changers after 2011 and it looks like single CD players will be gone from most cars in the next 5 years. This is because audio will be played off your personal device, through the car’s system, and audio will also make the move to the cloud, the Internet, and will reside in your account. You can upload existing CDs, buy tunes, store movies, and call on them when you want them. The latest service from Amazon is moving music in that direction. Amazon Cloud Drive lets you store your music for free, up to 5 gigabytes, and play it back on your computer or Android phone. Buy just one MP3 album and get 20 gigabytes of storage. Upgrades come at a buck a gig. I think the future of media is the cloud. Let someone else store it and you can call on it when you need it. It’s a bank full of your stuff and, when you need some of it, you withdraw it. But the bank stays full of your collection. Renting a car in Arizona? Use the Internet connected sound system to listen to your music, play a video for the kids in the back seat, or listen to WGN Radio. It’s what we’ve seen for years now. The trend is to get YOUR stuff, when you want it, and where you want it.

Here’s the interview with Mike McConnell, it starts at the 16:50 mark.