A computer chip too far ...?
By David HAGUE
I am of the opinion things are going mad. Whilst I applaud the creation of labour saving devices and own quite a few of them (current favourite is the Dyson vacuum cleaner), when they get to the point of making our brains also turn to mush, I dig my heels in.
I am all for remote controls for example; I love my GPS meaning I don't have to stop, get the Melways from behind the driver’s seat and my efergy energy reading meter keeps my power bills down.
I can also handle automatic focus in cameras – some people have a problem looking through dioptres or have eyesight deficiencies that make taking in-focus photos a bit of a worry. Even some of the built in-settings for sport, portrait, fireworks and snow/beach shots can be lived with (although I turn them off).
But really, face recognition was starting to get over the top, and now Sony has announced ‘smile detection’ so that the camera won't take the shot until a set of pearly whites is detected. Surely, we are not that dumb / incapable / thick that we cannot press a button at the right time and a computer chip has to do it for us.
What’s the next thing? I am almost scared to contemplate how potentially creatively stunted we have become.
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