This picture reminds me of something I’ve been occasionally pondering lately — experience vs. capture. Notice not one of the kids in this photo has their eyes on the President and his wife (woah, that felt good to type), but on the tiny LCD screen on the back of their camera. Are they missing out on anything? When all is said and done, what’s a lifecast worth on a deathbed?
I think we’re going to start seeing this go one step further over the next few years, with documentation leading experience, instead of the other way around like it’s been forever. People will choose what activities they do in the physical world based on how it will appear to their friends in the virtual world via their Twitter/Tumblr/Flickr/Facebook/etc.
Pics or it didn’t happen, indeed.
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