Well, I believe that luck has very little to do with the success. If you aren't focused and working very diligently toward a goal it will not materialize. Technology will always change the landscape of commerce in all walks of life. The music business is no different. Who knows what tomorrow will bring. One thing is certain, music isn't going anywhere. We will always need our music. Musicians will always be the people who find a way to meld expressive gifts to the craft of putting vibrations together. In a hundred years, who knows what the guitar or any instrument popular today will look like. We will always stop and listen to gifted purveyors of sound expressing themselves through song. We musicians of today come from a noble lineage of performing and composing good music for people's souls. The traveling minstrels and the improvising musicians who played in old leaky churches in Europe 2 or 3 centuries ago. Just think of all the great music that will never be heard. Now just think of all the music that is recorded daily all around the world. Most of that will never be heard by all of us. But all of it will be heard by some of us! Now how do we target the people who resonate with our particular brand of vibration and allow them to enjoy and compensate us in some way so we can continue to make this art. The middleman is the problem as he has set himself as the gatekeeper. Things like Kickstarter have taken the keys away. The future will force artists to do what we are supposed to do, be creative.