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Already it is 2007 on the right coast, while here it is 10:39 p.m. 2006 and counting.
While organizing my music and preparing for transfer to my anniversary present from MJ (an Ipod Shuffle,) I found this list on Wired of their Top Ten Gadgets that “changed the world.” After reading the entry for the Kodak Brownie film camera, I thought I would weigh-in on the ongoing discussion of film versus digital. For me, I hope film never goes away. However, digital point and shoots are most likely the past's Brownie, which puts one more nail in the coffin for film.
Well, for the so-called “first world” maybe, but for the emergent world, not so much. However, I felt Null’s rhetoric was just a little too strong for me, especially about the Kodak Brownie. Although correct in its inclusion, I found him too flip in the pronouncement that “film is dead.”
Again, that idiotic "film is dead" aphorism. Get a clue, film will not die as
As for digital, how long can those bits and bytes
of information keep? On CD? DVD? How long will that
new digital Rebel last? How
long.
Who cares anyway? It’s either electronic gadget obsolescence in 9 months, or a future of failed or outdated memory storage to come. Strange that something manufactured and developed eons ago still works.
Face it, both can and will survive together, much to the consternation or cooperation of both parties.
