Friday, March 18, 2011
"A Wired World In Its Own Mirror"
No doubt; this future has already arrived.
Cameras ARE everywhere, and people are using them.
In fact, information is everywhere, and there's so much of it, that we have to learn ways skip over most of it, or else, be overwhelmed...
Cameras ARE everywhere, and people are using them.
In fact, information is everywhere, and there's so much of it, that we have to learn ways skip over most of it, or else, be overwhelmed...
Richard Fernandez recently wrote about it at PajamasMedia.com:
"Photojournalists will still dominate scheduled events, like sporting matches and press conferences, with their pro equipment and training. But statistics is against them when it comes to capturing news. The world is big and professional photojournalists are few. The chances of one of them being in exactly the right place at the right time is about the same as a being on Haifa Street at precisely the moment when insurgents decide to kill an Iraqi election worker right in front of your camera.
It might happen, but it won’t happen too often. For good or ill, the chroniclers of our times will be the event participants themselves."
