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From: sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks)
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures
Subject: Re: 21st photography
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Date: 21 Aug 90 17:20:06 GMT
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fhapgood@world.std.com (Fred Hapgood) writes:


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>19th century photography is stills; 20th is film or video.  A 21st
>century 'photograph' would be a highly realistic computer
>animation that captured the essence of the person but could be
>inserted into new (animated) situations.


sounds a lot like M-M-M-Max Headroom.

I read a sci-fi book that dealt with such a phenomena as you describe.
I can't remember it exactly, but I think it may be part of the Gateway
series by Fredrick Pohl.

Basically in that society, when you die, they take a scan of your brain and
use it to program a computer model of you. This model is much like you describe,
& has free run of a large computer, along with other models, and can create 
any given situation and stick himself in it. So it's kinda like immortality
in a way, but you also get omnipotence in the bargain, at least as far as
the model is concerned.

I don't think this would be exactly a form of photography, as photography
is more along the lines of capturing the real world on record for enjoying
later. Not just people. This would be more like a simulation. 

I think the photography of the 21st century will be Holography. 
There is still quite a ways to go in that field. Maybe even motion pictures
in Holography.

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