This happens time and time again.
Back in 1995, when I got in trouble for connecting my computer to the computer of my hallmate with an arcnet cable because we were "breaking curfew" at the boarding school, we thought, "What we really need is a radio transmitter and receiver to connect our network cards to. Surely that seems possible!"
And a few years later, Wi-Fi was born. Back in 1997, when my friends and I first got comfortable with listening to music in this newfangled "M-P-Three" format, we all looked at our portable CD players and Walkmans and said, "What we really need is a little hard drive that we can carry around that will play these MP3 files! Surely that seems possible."
A few years later, the iPod became ubiquitous.
Back in 2006, I looked at my MP3 player, my cell phone, my camera and said, "What we really need is one device that does all these things and has no keypad! Surely that seems possible."
One year later, the iPhone was introduced.
Back in 2002 when we could share play songs off each others' iTunes libraries over a local network, we all said, "What we really need is to be able to do this over the internet AND DOWNLOAD THE SONGS into our own libraries! Surely that seems possible."
And now we have.....Mojo.
And let me tell you, it really works. Go watch the screencasts. Simply put:
With Mojo, you can play and download songs from your friends' computers...over the internet.
Needless to say, there will be some parties that would prefer this level of sharing not exist, the same parties that have done their best to forestall the inevitable dawn of this day. Progress like this always has its minority of losers. The sooner they get over it, the better off they'll be.
I'm so happy that another one of these "Surely that seems possible" items has been checked off the list! Thanks to sgazzetti for enlightening me and sharing his library with me.