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The popularity of fast food is as much a by-product of modern life as the popularity of fast photography. Although the latter is clearly younger and there is no causal connection, one might get the idea that people love fast food because in the time they saved by avoiding a proper meal they can take photographs of fast food and post them on the internet. The majority of these photographs are to be found on Flickr, one of the first image hosting websites that is today the most successful of its kind. This site was launched in 2004 and in just four years has become the biggest image pool ever accumulated in the history of humankind. Today, about three billion photographs are stored there. This inconceivable number is increasing continously — millions of photographs are uploaded to the site every single day.
Virtually everybody is a photographer today, and it is obvious that the exponentially growing quantity of images has turned into the foremost quality of photography itself. The number of photographs that are taken every minute will continue increasing - and that's maybe one of the very few things we can predict with reasonable certainty. Other than that, any attempt to predict the future of photography or the future of art or the future of technology is — in my humble opinion — about as promising as predicting the trajectory of a clipped toe nail. We can, however, get an idea of the magnitude of changes that we have to expect by envisioning the changes we experienced during the past years.
23.08.2008
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