Cameras in 5 years

2 changes that I see happening (not all of them, just a couple of many possibilities).

1. Enhanced personal vision—Camera phones enhance vision in one major way which is that we can share images and video in real time with people in other locations.  So I can see the weird cactus my girlfriend found this weekend in Arizona while I’m watching the Knicks on my computer.  Its not hard to imagine cameras becoming part of other structures, clothes, cars, bicycles, other technologies we use that have structural aspects that could accommodate electronics, which would be transmitted to other people or even ourselves if we have screens in contact lenses or glasses or something like that, so we could be receiving real time info, like a car with a camera in the bumper or something.

2. Fashion—I think ubiquitous camera will probably have some effect on fashion, though I’m not sure exactly what since I don’t know that much about fashion.  Arguably, one of the reasons that men stopped wearing hats all the time had to do with television.  TV show hosts like Ed Sullivan didn’t wear hats starting in the 50s and by the 70s the practice has basically disappeared.  As people see themselves from new angles, which will happen more as people are filmed and photographed all the time and can’t pose for shots, you would imagine that some fashions would benefit while others would suffer from the added exposure.

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