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There are more than 2 billion people with camera phones in the world.  There are 1.8 million CCTV cameras in England alone.

Needless to say, the odds of something NOT happening on camera these days is exponentially less than when I was younger. And I grew up in the age of TV and the birth of the Internet and other visual revolutions.

Literally, several billion dollar enterprises that have become some of the most important brands in the world (YouTube, Instagram, etc.) exist mostly as a repository for the detritus of video shot by average people around the globe.

I bring this up because of this: a shark attack caught on video that has now been seen around the world about 16 kagillion times.  In startling detail, we see a surfer being stocked and then attacked – luckily unsuccessfully from the sharks point of view.  However, in detail and clarity that I’ve never seen before the world got to see an honest to goodness shark attack when absolutely none was expected.  It may be – up until this point in history – one of the rarest images ever seen.

And that’s the thing. With so many cameras pointed practically toward every square inch of the world, the rare and the amazing and the impossible to believe are going to start becoming common 

place.

Think of what that could mean to our worldview:

• If aliens visit earth, we will see them
• If Bigfoot exists, we will see it
• Same for the Loch Ness Monster
• Ghosts, check
• The second coming? Film at 11!

“The Revolution Won’t Be Televised? Ha!