Who Knew?

I’m finally looking at the announcements from the Mobile World Congress back in February, and one of the craziest things is the fact that Nokia estimates that we will see cellphones with 1080p HD video recording capability within a few years, and that the chips that make this technology possible have already been created.

I mean, putting aside the terrible video quality that these chips will probably still produce, this has huge implications for citizen journalism and corporate accountability, even more so than the camera phones and portable digicams of today. When a device as portable as a phone can shoot such a high resolution, you’ve got a disruptive technology on your hands.

The MPAA could also be in huge trouble - in a few years when these phones are produced in mass quantities, and P2P technology has advanced to the point where illegally downloading a movie is as commonplace as it currently is to get an album off BitTorrent, the film industry could find themselves in the same situation as the music industry.