Authors are more than just pilots steering a ship. Pilots have been automated in the meantime - and they are doing their job rather well. But those search machines in the www handle all informations equally. We cannot delegate our professional responsibility and passion to searchmachines. They have no warmth, no sensuality, no humour. They don't learn from experience (yet) and draw no conclusions (yet). They cannot give blood to a subject matter and make it breathe. Evolution - also the technical one - produces everything, that is possible. It's our job to find out, what's important for us.

There are more things, computers can't do: extract the substance, the heart of a matter. Reveal the form / feature in a heap of raw material. Discover concealed or scarcely noticed qualities and beauties of peoples and things. Shrink the world to a manageable size. Translate it. As Friedrich Schiller said about the function of drama: It should "introduce man to man and reveal the mechanism, which makes the world move".

What can we do ? Some cues:

We should draw the outlines of what we consider to be a radio feature more clear and distinct - the term "feature" being abused for all and anything.
Let's work strictly listener-oriented - the radio should not talk to itself.
Grab the listener, where he is (That is, maybe, next door)
We must cope with the technical and esthetical standards of the audio industry respectively the music production (listeners are used to it).
On the field of audio production and aesthetics feature makers should be more competent than their colleagues in any other department of the station.