Personal Cameras

The future is personal cameras.

Wearable body cameras and drones.

They will change the world forever.

Every interaction you have with everyone will be caught on tape.

Technology will develop so that your every act in public life is recorded and can be played back to replace witness accounts with fact.

Rudeness, bullying, crime, accusations all verified objectively.

Identity and privacy issues can be protected by blurring faces in post production. So that's not an issue. And in some cases it won't matter.

Technology is progressing in this direction anyway, due to two drivers:

1. Camera Technology: cameras are getting smaller and easier to conceal, better in quality, easier to share across devices and media platforms, it fits with the Wearable Tech future.

2. Political Correctness: people will use technology to support their personal battle for or against The Other, resolving objectively disputes, disagreements, arguments, assault perceived or otherwise.

From that moment on the whole world will change.

People will no longer feel free to speak their mind or behave any way they want knowing that people are wearing tiny HD cameras on their person.

Sure they will have objective proof that someone hurt their feelings, or didn't. But the cost is privacy.

We will all become spies.

We will all tread carefully, even more than we are now, when engaging with others.

Concealed personal recording devices will settle and prevent many Things that confront us in public social life.

Even in private life, we'll be able to pull up that argument we had where our partner promised to clean out the garage for once.

This development will meet immediate resistance, mostly over privacy issues, but these will be overcome.

After this initial resistance, many things will improve in life, and many other things will get a lot worse.

Imagine life where everything you do is recorded and can be played back later for any reason.