Wearable cameras will become ubiquitous, barely noticed by society. A capitalist society requires a culture based on images to entertain, anesthetize social injuries, and gather information for exploitation, productivity, and control. Cameras define reality as spectacle and surveillance, essential to advanced industrial societies.
More photographs have been taken in the past year than on all film combined, with over 2 trillion photos shared annually. Susan Sontag’s 1973 observations from 'The Image-World' predicted this exponential growth, which has accelerated far beyond her expectations. Humanity’s appetite for images is insatiable, consuming an estimated 4.3 quadrillion images per day.
Facebook, Google, and Twitter aggressively pursue video dominance. Before images, time was similarly commodified. Clocks evolved from rare luxuries to ubiquitous tools, driven by industrial needs, railways, and digital networks.
Today, precise time is invisible yet essential, with countless devices synced to atomic clocks.
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