Software will replace physical placeholders

CDs, DVDs and Bluray disks are placeholders until internet bandwidth is cheap enough and strong enough all over the world, for us to be able to stream TV and Films. When we get there, we will no long have disks. 

Paper money and debit/credit cards are only placeholders, until we have all embraced payments on our mobile phones.

Physical books are placeholders, until we all fully embrace e-books

Point and Shoot cameras are placeholders until our phones can do a better job at taking pictures. In-fact we are already at that point where point-and-shoot cameras are getting phased out.

Therefore, SLRs are placeholders until they become phased out when phone cameras become sophisticated enough with the help of camera apps

There are many more examples

Our phone's software has made obsolete or will soon make obsolete these placeholders:

Alarm clocks

Calculator

Calendar

Photographs

Paper maps

mp3 player

etc

2 years ago, I told a friend that cameras are placeholders until our eyes are actually able to take photos. Then Black Mirror also suggests that our eyes will soon be able capture video 24/7 that we can rewind and playback either to ourselves, or through a TV set.

For more, look at  slides 33 - 84 here:

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The Amazing Spiderman review

The Amazing Spiderman is very aptly named.

It was an excellent movie. Well cast. The scenes with Peter Parker and his love interest were better than those in each of the 3 previous films. The relationship with his uncle Ben, and aunty May was fresh, warm and they nailed it emotionally when the scene needed to.

The way they tackled the uncle Ben demise was more grounded in reality than in the first Spiderman, and what a great choice to cast Martin Sheen.

Andrew Garfield is a superstar. Tobey Maguire was a great spiderman, but Garfield I think, really gets the character a little bit more than Tobey did. 

I was initially skeptical that the swinging was gonna disappoint, but it didn't. Having said that, I still prefer the swinging shots in Spidey 1 & 2.

I think what director Marc Webb did better than director Sam Raimi, was to re-imagine the spiderman character when he is in the suit. Spidey has more fun this time. He has is funnier. He moves faster in the cleverest of ways. My favourite action scene is when Spidey is fighting with the Lizard inside the school. When Gwen Stacy attempts to help, Spiderman unleashes this strong web of horror around this very powerful assailant. He weaves the web in a very fluid, musical way to hold him down. Then at some point, he crawls from the shoulders of the Lizard down to his legs and to his back…like a freaking spider. That was the best moment, that was the edge, the nuance of the character than Marc Webb and his visual effects team got over the previous spiderman films.

Don't get me wrong Spiderman 2 set the bar so high. I won't say this is better because they are so different. I can say this one is definitely better than Spiderman 3 which was crap, still don't know why I bought the dvd. Oh, yeah because of the extra features, and a few decent action scenes. 

Emma Stone nails...nails, the Gwen Stacy part. She is going to be our generation's Meryl Streep. 

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