Chapter 9

Of Synthetics and Cyborgs really delved into the span of possibilities that could emerge in the future with digital photography. In the beginning of the chapter, Ritchin makes a comment about how someday we may all walk around with a walnut sized lump in our foreheads that would have the potential to record our entire lives. Scary is my immediate reaction to that while others seem to grab at the opportunity to explore deeper into the digital world. This ability relies way to much on technology and takes us farther away from our grounded reality. Maybe movies and video games have put too many ideas in peoples heads because after this chapter I felt like in a few years I would be living in the Matrix. Taking pictures used to be special because it was a highly selective and thought out process. Only things that truly made an impact on the photographer would be given the chance to be captured and later made into a sole representation of that time or event. With the huge technological leaps that have been made in photography, that thought process has been pushed aside. If humans got to the point where everything throughout their daily lives was being documented that would only encourage less observance for it would all be stored away if ever needed. I hope it doesn't reach this point, especially during my lifetime because I think it would be horribly sad.