A Small and Beautiful World
On Monday night my wife and I seen Take That at the Odyssey Arena as they performed the penultimate concert of their Beautiful World tour in Belfast.
As usual it was a superb show with an expensive set, brilliant special effects, amazing costumes, fantastic dancers and a great atmosphere. We were seated two thirds of the way down the hall and so were relying on the big screens for close-up shots. However, not long into the show the lads didn’t disappoint as they made their way to a smaller stage just opposite us where we were able to get closer views.
It was at this point I noticed that almost everyone standing had their mobile phones aloft taking photos, recording video and audio. Of course I did the same and only then did I remember about a cool function in my Sony Ericsson w880i. When I take photos there are various options to me, one of which is to “Blog this”. It’s something I’ve only used once before and it made me realise, here I am standing at this concert and right now I can take a photo and within seconds have it appear live on the web. Ok so maybe you do this all the time and think nothing of it but it made me think wow, how cool is that?!
But what ramifications does this technology have for the future? Most portable devices today are fairly primitive in terms of picture, video and audio quality but over time that will improve vastly. So in the future will people go to concerts and stream them live to their friends? Will online streaming services from mobile phones be available (perhaps they already are?) so instead we will have some kind of live YouTube? Only time will tell…
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