Negative and positive effects of digital cameras and genetic engineering

Question

Negative and positive effects

Answer 1

Here are some thoughts on digital cameras:

  -  the camera shop used to develop B/W film in a day; a week for color film

  -  famous "Earthrise" photo taken in 1968 while Apollo 8 orbited the moon was film that couldn't be developed until the astronauts returned to Earth

  -  today, we see "the Blue Orb" as a composite (or not) photo or video almost instantaneously

  -  we can watch the Mars rover in just minutes (it does take some time for signals to get here)

  -  uploading "selfies" requires digital data

  -  companies like Poloroid and Kodak either changed or vanished

  -  computer sites like YouTube, Facebook, Amazon, etc. store massive amounts of visual information

  -  books have become e-books (with digital pictures); newspapers and magazines are rarely in print anymore

  -  software like Photoshop has changed how we think of photos; video software is changing how we think of movies and how we record/watch/share events

  -  video cameras are so small they can be on the end of a "wire" (for a colonoscopy or endoscopy or catheterization)

  -  video cameras on drones fight wars, survey disasters, and snoop on people

  -  digital video allows Skype and online WyzAnt tutoring, and company meetings, and training, and ...

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and, did you see the video of the truck with a display of the road (also with night vision)?

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GNGfse9ZK8

 

p.s., most of us have learned not to believe photos anymore -- models are Photoshopped, the internet has a picture of Princes Diana looking at Princes Charlotte, ...   We soon should realize that there is no such thing as "Indisputable Video Evidence" since computers are certainly fast enough to put extra lines, down and distance values, etc. on the football field without crossing a player or the ball -- they could show a player stepping out of bounds when he actually didn't !!