I remember a Star Trek episode where Captain Kirk’s voice and maybe face was synthesized by a computer to make it appear he said something that he really didn’t. I remember thinking that was pretty far out, but that maybe some day we’d reach the point where photographic evidence wouldn’t be very convincing. That day arrived years ago, pace fauxtography.
And now the day when video evidence doesn’t mean much has arrived. A very cool demo. Check it out.
Did you read Michael Crichton’s Rising Sun years ago? That was the central technological subtext: that in the age of digital photography, images are inherently unreliable, and will probably have to eventually be ruled unacceptable evidence by courts. Interesting stuff.
Comment by Bill Walsh — 14 August, 2008 @ 18:05