TIme waits for everyone, now that we've all got camera phones

James Sullivan for the San Francisco Chronicle, writes a great article on cameraphones.

"Camera phones are fast becoming the existential proof positive of the face in the crowd. They are making the spontaneous snapshot as natural a part of daily life as the ATM withdrawal and the coffee break. They are also turning ordinary citizens into documentarians, fine-art photographers and, in cases such as hit-and-run accidents, community watchdogs."

[...] had camera phones existed in 1963, it's possible the assassination of President John F. Kennedy "wouldn't be such an issue now..."

[...] Instant access and interconnectivity, already immutable parts of our reality, are improving so quickly we can't keep up, he says. "The whole space- time continuum is completely collapsed now."

Not so long ago, we couldn't even picture it."

emily | 5:46 PM | Citizens as Camera Phone Reporters |
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