A truly abysmal photo (taken with my phone) of the Moon and Venus before storm Ciara kicked in over the weekend. It's amazing when you think about it, in the short space of 10-12 years pretty much everyone (certainly in the West) has a fully functional digital camera in their pocket almost all the time and are able to take random snaps and videos of their everyday sights, sounds and lives. I wonder what the long term impact of all this recording of history will be in the future, will we reach a stage where our entire lives are captured and shared, will we simply record everything? You can see how we might end up there, and, if we do how that might have some kind of effect on our capacity to imagine. After all, why expend the energy trying to imagine/describe something when you can simply watch/show it in high-definition?
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