DIGITAL IMAGES

DIGITAL IMAGES

The bible reads "Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven images" .... and the second commandment concludes "Thou shalt not bow down to them nor serve them", which implies the prohibition against idolatry, but man in his heightened zeal to disobey the commandments and to glorify his own image, sprang into making carvings of himself and his surroundings, since time immemorial. These graven images has changed somewhat in its form to the virtual and the digital kind of today. Will this invariably be the cause of his destruction or his higher elevation? Man has termed all his clever tricks that he mentally conjured up technologies but are these not mere "ploys by Satan" to distract mankind from worshipping God?

After centuries of statue mouldings and wood carvings, man has come to preserve his own image by creating the crude box-camera and the film to accompany it. Vigorously perusing betterment over time, we today, have interchangeable 35mm cameras that beats its more modern digital camera in picture density hands down. The single slide projector of old gave way to carousels, superseded by silent 8mm projector, then ones with sound. Progress in motion photography gave rise to 16 movie projector, then 32 mm cine projectors and its other industrial incarnations. These amazing technologies were even further superseded by Television, and video recorder, as exhibits and storage places for man's images. CD/DVD writer and computer hard drives today, are to the most popular and the cheapest form of mass storage for any kinds of information.

Just imagine where this is all going to end, we already have digital kids, who have digital kidz, playing in digital playground with nerdy toys, trading with digital cash, in virtual space in the Web 2.0 world -the latest hype. Virtually every cell phone today has an embedded camera and the ability to record several frames per second, viz, digital video cameras.

Essentially Web 2.0 refers to the "second generation" of web development, technologies and design. It better facilitate Internet communication, data uploads,  information sharing and world wide collaboration on virtually every subject. Web 2.0 gave rise the development and evolution of web-based communities collaborating through social-networking sites where video-sharing and picture sharing, is the order of the day. The porn industry has more than flourished because of this and pervades the Internet to the point that school going kids are sending selphy's of their pink parts to others to evoke a response.

So I ask you, has image creation reached a new level of evil?