Thursday, August 14, 2008
New technology
20th Century technology seemed to be all about saving time and energy. People didn't have to spend hours up to their elbows in sudsy water, or filing catalogue, issue cards for hours on end, or labourisly handwriting everything. This century's technlogy seems to be designed to fill up our time. Hours could be spent making clever pictures and organising them. How many people indexed their photoalbums in the old days?
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A good point! It is really just another choice we have - some enjoy this technology while others are happy without.
Not many people did index their photo albums, or at least label their photos, in the old days. Looking at them now there is often nothing to identify people or places!
Flickr gives me hope, I have albums of family photos from 80 - 100 years ago, obviously relations but who? Also I have stacks and stacks of photos of the family growing up, still possible to more or less date and name, but time..... Maybe, just maybe the immediacy of taking a photo during the day and uploading it and tagging it that same evening may mean some better control. I guess on the other hand the hard copy of a photo from the print shop has its joys too.kzdsep
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