Today's mobiles already allow you to tell the time, arrange your appointments diary, watch filma, play games, and take pictures of your blocked sink that you can send as jpegs to your plumber, who will text you back a ludicrous estimate, which you can check by using your phone's calculator function.
I like the chosen example...'blocked sink' and plumber's 'ludicrous estimate'...trippy, I'd say!
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The blocked sink example made me smile too - probably because I've been shooting seemingly ludicrous things with my phonecam recently.
It also brings to my mind a point that Chris Anderson, editor-in-chief of WIRED magazine, makes in his book, The Long Tail.
He talks about how true advancement happens when you are able to waste resources - the entire IT revolution is based upon being able to waste 'precious' CPU cycles.
This ability to shoot pictures of anything and everything will actually lead to interesting and probably even deep-rooted changes to photography itself.
I wrote about one such possible advance in an article last year. You can read it here .
Interesting indeed!
Oh! for the day that our plumbers and tailers and carpenters in India became so tech-friendly!!!!
That would be swell! :)
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