At 17:12 2003-02-18 +0900, Nick May wrote:
>keitai-l@appelsiini.net writes:
> >Its not an gimmick.
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>It's a gimmick 'coz they could just have easily used a regular digicam.
>There is no reason at all why this had to be "real time".
Well, there were obvious reasons for the case of 9/11 to be real-time even
though in most cases there are no such reasons.
> > Mobiles with cameras ill soon start to have a
> >major impact on all other media. Think 11/9 with live video feeds
> >coming from most of the people trapped in the buring towers.
>
>mmm - can't wait, I'm sure... But if what you say is right, why hasn't
>this cellphone "major impact" already affected radio? It's true we heard a
>few desperately sad messages from people trapped insides as they called
>their families - but hardly " a major impact" - even with moving pictures.
> >Thinmk
> >million and million of newsteams and every event, big or small,
> >covered more or less live.
>
>Oh joy. 2 million people with their cellphones streaming fuzzy live
>media. What an utter bore. It will have not the slightest affect on "other
>media" I suspect.
I think this question depends on other media. There are already today
possibilities
to get direct information from war-scenes. For example, the International
Solidarity
Movement has an email-based media service from the occupied territories in
Palestine.
The activists sends daily(sometime hourly) updates from the "frontline" and
often
include images and always include comments from eye-witnesses. It's very
direct and
emotional shocking and probably as close as you can get using information
techology
(except for video). The problem is that major media tends to IGNORE IT, at
least their material.
Perhaps the situation would have been different if it concerned a conflict
or situation
with less or diffferent political status.
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> >
> >Think telecom turning into telecam.
>
>Useful if you are in a car crash and want to get pics for your insurer -
>or for wives to keep track of husbands, mothers of children and so on.
>
>Think "privacy even deader than ever..."
Well, that's for sure at least. I'm totally confident that privacy on public
places will be, and in some cases already are, totally lost. Do you agree?
I think the digicam "revolution" is already happening, but it is on a very
low level.
Isn't the real interesting question here whether people will send their
images with
MMS or if they will use other cheaper applications, like email. I mean, why
pay more
than necessary?
/Gustaf
>Nick
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