Napster generation goes to war

Another very interesting article, written by Bernhard Warner, European Internet Correspondent for Reuters, comparing how the Napster generation has forced the music industry to rethink its business, and now, how military officials had better apply their minds to the flow of information from today's front lines that has potentially disastrous consequences.

"Photos sent by U.S. soldiers in Iraq beyond the control of their chiefs show how the latest technology can undermine the carefully crafted public relations of the modern military machine.

"The military needs to review how emerging technologies will forever alter their public relations efforts - and powerful technologies are already in the hands of 18- and 19-year servicemen, way before they are implemented by the army..

The advent of 3G camera-equipped phones would enable soldiers in the heat of battle, to show war scenes to the wider world instantaneously".

For more related articles, cf Picturephoning's The military as citizen reporters category

emily | 11:02 AM | The Military and Iraq. Images and Issues |
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