According to a recent BA-sponsored survey, reported by all the news media, compiling ‘mix tapes’ is what the average Brit misses most from the past. Choosing which tracks to copy from your own vinyl records onto a cassette tape was the key activity to create personalised media and to enable sharing. It was a German-Brazilian former student of Philosophy, Andreas Pavel, who first approached consumer electronics companies in the mid 1970 with his idea for a portable personal s