This forum ought to have one of those smileys with a bag of popcorn. I've been enjoying the debate and the polarization, not quite figuring out how to say what I want, except that I think the idea that technology makes you lazy, while it certainly can be true, does not have to be, and I think parts of this thread have a bit more bondage and discipline than I really care for. If the object of making a photograph is to get a photograph that does what you want it to do, I am not sure the morality of how it got there is all that relevant. Walking to school in the snow builds character, but if your object is to learn geometry, it may not be to the point.
I don't suppose that's news to many, of course, and I suspect myself of being one of the bad photographers who have been woefully and sinfully empowered by the ease of making a photograph which is not so technically bad that random strangers hold their noses. I like technology, in part because I'm a gearhead, but also because I like to be able to take a camera and have it perform quickly tasks which I once had to perform slowly.
All the same, I suspect that if the product under discussion is not just a silly new interface for things we already have, it is aimed at actually influencing photographs in ways that go beyond the usual technology of good exposure and sharp focus, and at either suggesting or imposing aesthetic choices, which, for myself at least, I'd find pretty annoying. If I'm going to take bad photographs, let them be good old fashioned bad choices, not clichés.
