Steva11,
I think musing about future technology is always a great topic.
Although new technology and markets kind of go together, I think the market is more waiting on the technology than the reverse. Or at least it will be when folks start to realize the potential value and convenience of personal monitoring (part of what I’m trying to do here). Mega-pixel cameras in cell phones (with big hard drives or not) would not compare to personal monitoring. A picture is a picture. A video is at least 30 pictures per second – all day long – with sound. Regarding the issue of data sorting: motion/sound-activation circuitry could reduce that. Besides, one would only go sorting when something is needed or wanted. Kinda like security tapes: you only go looking for something when an incident occurs. (Oh, did I mention it would replace security cameras too?).
Let me rant on a bit more.
Imagine. Imagine most people’s cell phones are recording video & audio all the time. Imagine a world where virtually everything, at least where there are people, is recorded. Imagine the reduction of crime and corruption and domestic abuse (and terrorism?). Imagine the protection of individual liberties. Try to imagine a more perfect weapon of defense. This milestone in information technology will be a crowning achievement of civilized society. Just as so many other great tools were only a smart combination of previous tools, now called components, personal monitoring will be the latest. Do you suppose earlier generations had similar discussions, critical of the futuristic concept of the automobile, yet supportive of fuel, fire, wheels, carts, buggies, transportation and water pumps? Do you suppose they claimed that there would be no market for all that speed, all that complexity, all those repairs? I suppose they probably did.
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