I was reading an article just yesterday about efforts to build similar systems in Victorian times... pretty interesting:

http://wilsonquarterly.com/article.cfm?AID=2056

yeah, people should totally just skip the "write books" thing, and just teach/tutor instead, since then they can get paid at the time they do it. Books are useless.

Also, from now on I'm going to fly my favorite musicians over to my house and pay them for a song or two whenever I want to listen to them.