It took about a half hour today after hearing the announcement of the iPhone3G S to REALLY get hit by the implications that it has for everyone. With it’s ridiculously low price point, this means thousands, if not millions of people will be walking around with digital camcorders, with a decent internet connection, everywhere they go.
Imagine the BART station shooting a few months ago, where the cops beat and then shot the innocent guy for no reason and then confiscated all onlookers camera phones, except this time 5 or so people had this new iPhone. While that happened, say, 2 of them recorded it, saw the cops coming after them, and instantly sent it to mobileME or to a few friends on their contact list, that also have an iPhone, those people then send it to THEIR friends. Within MINUTES the whole world would know what REALLY happened.
I think we’re going to start seeing a new wave of citizen journalism taking place, YouTube helped, but this is like the Monolith in 2001: A Space Odyssey, this is world changing.
It’s amazing how far we’ve come.
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