Is there a Moore’s law for this?
— Venkatesh Rao (@vgr) April 14, 2022
Phenomena like selfies are wrong level of explanation. They are just the most common epiphenomena. There’s also stuff like photos of book pages, parking space numbers, receipts…
— Venkatesh Rao (@vgr) April 14, 2022
Photography basically trended towards “too cheap to meter” so Cambrian explosion of usage variety…
The most profitable mobile apps (Facebook, TikTok, Instagram, Tinder, Snap, etc.) are largely built around sharing outputs of mobile cameras. Our main activity with our phones is consuming images, so it's no surprise that the camera is the main driver of purchasing behavior.
— Amal Dorai (@amaldorai) April 14, 2022
