Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/08/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]One of the rare occasions in which Brian got involved in a thread way way back in the turn of the century or millennium we were talking about the demise of craft and print making and how things were going the way of the jpeg and people not showing you their prints but showing you their jpegs on a small screen like from an iPod. (a thing which played music) Someone joked maybe it was me that soon we'd be viewing each others pix on our Dick Tracy wrist watches and that was shot down as being too Apocalyptic Dysphoric. I wonder if its still in the archives? In the past few years when the iPhones took over and those screens became the main viewing ground for seeing sobodies photo work; it was looking bad but it got worse. The Apple watch came out and I've not seen one in person yet. But I was wondering if you can view pix on them. I just checked. You can. * http://www.apple.com/watch/built-in-apps/ "the smaller 38mm Apple Watch has a resolution of 272 x 340, while the larger 42mm Apple Watch has a resolution of 312 x 390. " they are about 40mm's in height. So things will get dumbed down even further. Or they already have. If things can get worse but I think it would have to start with the Apple iGlass. Little high tech eye glasses. So when it used to be people were really listening to you talking to them instead of their little earphone ( just happened in the apple store) now its not just not you they are listening to. They're not seeing you either. They are watching the readout. What Arnold saw in T1. * The system goes online August 4th, 1997. Human decisions are removed from strategic defense. Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th. In a panic, they try to pull the plug. Sarah Connor: Skynet fights back. -- Mark William Rabiner Photographer http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/