Audiocassettes Strike Back

According to the British newspaper The Guardian, sales of audio cassettes
in the country began to grow since 2017. In 2018, they grew by 125%
compared to 2017. These are no less than 50,000 licensed albums. Despite
the fact that in 2017, 22011 licensed audio cassettes were sold in Britain.
In the first half of 2020, 65,000 cassettes were sold in the UK, close to
80,000 by the end of the year.
Albums of pop-rock band 5 Seconds Of Summer, Lady Gaga, indie pop 
The 1975, singers Selena Gomez and Dua Lipa sold the largest circulations
on tape in 2020. Against the background of sales growth, a crisis in the 
production of audio cassettes arose in the world. Since in 2019 there was
only one tape production plant on the planet. National Audio Company,
has ordered 50 thousand tons of raw materials to resume production after 
the reconstruction of the plant.
In 2016, cassette sales grew 74% in the United States, according to Nielsen.
And in 2018, sales of audio cassettes in the country grew by 23%. Also in
2020, vinyl record sales in the United States exceeded CD-ROM sales.
Against the backdrop of the crisis of the idea of a "smartphone ghetto", many
people are returning to the values of a simple life. When a person contacts
the physical world not through the "smartphone" prosthesis, but through
his own actions. Normalcy returns. Not right away, no. But the world will
gradually return to normal and abandon the "smartphone ghetto" in favor of
real life. And everyone who reads these lines should help people with this.
We have to teach them how to live outside the "smartphone ghetto". Because
three generations of people have grown up who do not know what a simple
life is. Vinyls records, BBSs, Gopher, audiotapes are just the beginning of
the path back to normality. Undoubtedly a world without neuromarketing 
and social media obsessions available will be returned.