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In Less Than Five Years, 45 Billion Cameras Will Be Watching Us (fastcompany.com)
An anonymous reader writes: It was a big deal for many when Apple added a second camera to the back of the iPhone 7 Plus last year. In five years, that will be considered quaint. By then, smartphones could sport 13 cameras, allowing them to capture 360-degree, 3D video; create complex augmented reality images onscreen; and mimic with digital processing the optical zoom and aperture effects of an SLR. That's one of the far-out, but near-term, predictions in a new study by LDV Capital, a VC firm that invests in visual technologies such as computer vision. It polled experts at its own portfolio companies and beyond to predict that by 2022, the total number of cameras in the world will reach about 45 billion. Jaw-dropping as that figure is, it doesn't seem so crazy when you realize that today there are already about 14 trillion cameras in the world, according to data from research firms such as Gartner. Next to phones, other camera-hungry products will include robots (including autonomous cars), security cameras, and smart home products like the new Amazon Echo Show, according to LDV. UPDATE: Story has been updated to reflect the updates made to The Fast Company article. The outreach figures are 45 billion cameras by 2022, not trillion.
I'm okay with it as long as one of them can tell me where I left my damn car keys.
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What is this event?
I'll tell you in a moment, but I still want to share a few thoughts with you before I tell you. I was shocked when I fully realized this coming disaster. Though the Bible speaks about coming judgments and chaos upon the earth in the Book of Revelation, I did NOT discover this impending disaster in the Bible. This coming cataclysmic event CANNOT be remedied, it cannot be avoided. Scientists and Astronomers have released public warnings over the past few years warning us about the possibility of a meteorite striking the earth. The Bible confirms this prediction... it will eventually happen, but it will not wipe out the human race. Howbeit, the event of which I am warning you certainly will wipe out every person alive today! It is coming! You cannot run and hide!
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It is none other than DEATH itself.
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Soon there will be trillions of cameras all around us.
https://xkcd.com/605/
I'm a good cook. I'm a fantastic eater. - Steven Brust
I hate this world so much.
It's already been proven that software today can manipulate audio and create words you've never said based on samples.
Next-gen video manipulation will be able to put you at the scene of any crime, and we all know how valuable video evidence is in a courtroom today.
Our legal system needs to adjust for this abuse of technology. It will not be able to in time, which will make video evidence the next weapon against innocent victims. Watch and see.
44 trillions camera over 5 years is 25 millions a day. I do believe that our dear Governments want to see each one of us piss, but that would still require quite an efficiency that I highly doubt public agencies are capable of.
... but can they see why kids love cinnamon toast crunch?
Obligatory xkcd.
The population is estimated to grow to roughly 8 billion by 2022, so we'd better act fast and get a bulk rate for those ~4,900 cameras that we'll each be carrying around...
http://i.imgur.com/794sIYf.jpg
Surely they meant "billions", right? I can't imagine how it's possible that there's 2000 cameras per each person already, including babies and third-world countries.
14 trillion cameras for 7 billion people? That's 2000 cameras per man, woman, and child on the planet. That just doesn't seem to make any sense. Between current and old phones, the old web cam for the PC, and some older unused HD video recorders, I personally have about 20. Most are packed up in a box of old tech junk. Someone who had a lot may have 100 as a total guess. So where would the other 1900 come from? Most cameras set up for surveillance do so to record the activities of many.
If we assumed there are currently 2000 cameras per person, and even that every person in the United States had 100 cameras in their possession, that would leave 613,700,000,000 cameras unaccounted for in the US. That's one camera for every 170 square feet of the nation. I don't think we're quite at that level of surveillance yet.
I'm sorry, but your opinion seems to be wrong.
44 trillion cameras and still no space aliens, Bigfoots, or Loch Ness Monsters.
Just lots and lots of corrupt cops.
Some may think I am only joking...
my own personal flying Car. Then my own personal Jesus.
What if I were to tell you that an event so devastating is going to occur over the next 150 years that it will kill everyone presently living upon on the earth?
I'd say "already got it covered thanks".
There are an estimated 6,000,000,000 people living upon the earth today... EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM WILL BE DEAD IN 150 YEARS!!!
*YodaVoice* And that... is why you fail */YodaVoice*
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
He's already starting in the ultimate reality show. The more cameras the better!
Grab 'me by the pussy!
When you say "44 trillion cameras", what comes first to mind is each of them being part of a botnet...
Better beef up those firewalls everyone!
As for people worrying about being seen, I see an upcoming trend where people who are bothered by that will choose to live such disgusting lives that no-one would choose to watch them.
In a preverse twist, they will become popular celebrities, and the future foretold by Sesame Street where Oscar the Grouch was wildly liked will come to pass on a scale unheard of.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
The article says there will be 44 trillion cameras, not that they will be "watching us".
I'm a good cook. I'm a fantastic eater. - Steven Brust
2,000 cameras watching each person on the planet. I feel bad for the poor fucker assigned to watch the ones in Rosie O'Donnell's shower.
There's no way this is true. If there were 14 trillion cameras today, that's ~2,000 per every man woman and child.
That's an entire busload of Japanese tourists.
To be charitable, perhaps they are talking about individual camera pixels.
There is no way there can be 44 trillion cameras. There are only 8 billion people. That would be 50,000 cameras per person. Not exactly affordable.
BS sensor going off wildly. I could buy -- though I still find it unlikely -- 44 *billion* cameras. But No. Fucking. Way. on 44 trillion.
That's just shy of THE ENTIRE GDP FOR THE US.
So. Not. Buying.
Unless, of course, "cameras" is code for "leaves," a la HHGTTG.
I got my brain thinking 14 trillion. At 44 trillion, it's roughly 2.5 times the entire US GDP.
Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.
It was a big deal for many when Apple added a second camera to the back of the iPhone 7 Plus last year.
No. Idiot.
Apple did not add a second camera to the back of the iPhone 7 Plus. Apple added a second lens to the one camera on the back of the iPhone 7 Plus.
The iPhone 7 Plus has two cameras, not three. The camera on the front has one lens and the camera on the back has two lenses.
5.9 million cameras in London is a lot. But still, it's onely roughly equivalent of 3 billion in the world, not trillions. And London is not typical as they have more cameras than anywhere else, by far.
I don't care how you got those numbers, but you f-cked up massively. The numbers are wrong, period.
14 trillion.
Gartner.
They measured in metric trillions.
Common mistake for ignorant USians to make.
It completely bipasses common sense. People that don't know what a trillion is shouldn't be writing about it. And people who do know shouldn't post this drivel on Slashdot.
http://www.ldv.co/insights
LDV have updated their website with billions instead of trillions.