The NewYorker: In the Future, We Will Photograph Everything and Look at Nothing

[Andy]

FYI
http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/in-the-future-we-will-photograph-everything-and-look-at-nothing
rgds,
Andreas 

[armando_m]

Thanks for sharing this

[Airy]

interesting insights

[Hugh_3170]

Andy, thanks for posting this article. 

I found it both thought provoking and at times confrontational.  I am still left wondering whether this always-on computing power and image processing might will do anything at all to improve our seeing abilities and visual literacy.

[Frank Fremerey]

Wenders stated this in "Lisbon Story"

[elsa hoffmann]

hits the core. thanks for posting.

[Airy]

I have yet to read "Lisbon Story".
To me, the title of the article is remindful of Pierre Boulez' attitude towards composing music: the process is more important than the result. And the ironic result is, his musical production might well get forgotten, together with the processes he developed.

I must admit that I also cherish the tools (lenses, ..., organs...) and the process (of shooting, of playing...) as much as, if not more than, the results. Music is anyway fading, right? but concerning photos, apart from some online publishing (here, on FB, on Behance) and careful storage and indexing (using LR, keywords, the cloud and a RAID drive) I do not do a lot. To me it is enough if a pic raises an eyebrow or triggers a smile with a few people.

I am not building pyramids.

[Bjørn Rørslett]

Eventually we forget the pictures even before we see them. Another evolutionary peak for mankind, I suppose.

[Andrea B.]

I think digital cameras - including the much derided cellie - help me to See. Sometimes I use the camera just for that.

Sure, snapshots are omnipresent to the point of boredom. But photography as an art will not die out. There are still photography galleries and exhibitions and foto books. Deep explorations of themes or topics will remain important. Analogy: good writing is still around in spite of cellphone thumbing and laptop keying.

[Frank Fremerey]

"Lisboin Strory" is a movie: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisbon_Story_%281994_film%29

[Jakov Minić]

A very interesting read!
I will gladly allow a machine to sort out my photos and help me retrieve them, but I would still like to do the editing myself

[golunvolo]

"Real value creation will come from stitching together photos as a fabric, extracting information and then providing that cumulative information as a totally different package."
I find this very interesting. A whole new level. My impression is that this approach is believable and will be added to what we already do, instead of replace it. Will see. 

[John Geerts]

I am not sure what I have read.  A bit about the same things they said about the influence of the 'Television' when it was introduced.  And some 'vision' of Google. Mostly what-if.   

I can imagine some other what-ifs, for instance what will happen if the cloud will disappear. 

[elsa hoffmann]

........for instance what will happen if the cloud will disappear. 

probably no rain for a while?   

[Tristin]

In the future?