At the Inaugural Youth Ball, the new President of the United States and the First Lady Obama salute the crowd.
Ángel Luis González Fernández aka Bohoe posts this photo (original from VentureBeat and writes:
While the event is happening, we the audience indulge in its consumption by recording it, rather than experiencing the event itself. We engage the media, the channel, the interface, and not the message. This image speaks volumes about how we experience reality, about our relation with the image world, and about ownership.
He then cites Kevin Kelly's essay (see earlier post) and continues:
It is hard to chew a way forward in terms of a Photographic share economy, though while it seems excessive for mankind to record the same event with millions of cameras, we all want to have one, to take one. Maybe the issue is there, in the sharing.
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