• Enhances: What does this technology do that is new?
Digital cameras allow images to be recorded and storied in digital form. With the use of the computer, images can be manipulated and stored on home computers. During the digital era the developments of the digital camera have simplified the whole process of photography (Haslego, 2006).
• Obsoletes: What does this technology replace?
Digital cameras have replaced the photographic film process. The color process began in the 1930s.
• Retrieves/rekindles: What does this technology bring to mind (or retrieve) from the past?
This technology continues to meet the need to project images onto paper to be view at a later time. Early cameras were developed in the 16th and 17th century (Haslego, 2006).
• Reverses: What might replace this technology in the future, or what might it cause to occur?
At the CIPA (Camera and Imagining Products Association) tradeshow in Japan, it has been predicted that cameras of the future will no longer have a shutter button. Picture will be taken using voice commands. Camera will also become smaller, have unlimited battery power and could possibly add “smell-graphy”. This process would allow cameras to record the smell of the scene and embed it along with the visual image (Schurman, 2010).
Cassandra,
ReplyDeleteThank you for sharing the predictions of the future for the digital camera. I am particularly interested in how the "smell-graphy" would work. At this point, this idea seems to be the most unrealistic one to me, but after just coming from ISTE 2010 in Denver and listening to Ian Jukes talk about Emerging Disruptive Technologies, anything is possible and not so far in our future. Great post!
LeAnn :-)
Cassandra,
ReplyDeleteThat is interesting the smell-graphy, it will be interesting to see how that plays out. We all know that smell can trigger a memories as well a pictures.
Shauna
Cassandra,
ReplyDeleteSmellography.... hmmmm I think it would definitely elicit memory responses to the event that are pictured. This is an interesting thought!
Sherry
I appreciate your thoughts. I also propose a day when cameras will be smaller and much more powerful. The idea of smellography is awesome.
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