> The older technology used to give you a reflection of it so that you could still feel it. Today, it’s reconstituted. It’s poorly sampled. It’s garbage that has less bits to save people memory, which is not even relevant anymore.
I noticed this last night when scanning photos I inherited: in the last 20 years or, ID photo prints became so cheap and fugly, they are JUST enough for a person to be identified, whereas ID photos that are older have an astonishing amount of detail in the print (and an absence of compression artifacts), that is not necessary to recognize the person, but makes them seem much more plastic and real, for lack of a better way to describe it.
Pressuring western companies into not saying what the CCP doesn't like, for starters. A totalitarian regime that is set to rewrite history, seeking to kill history and therefore human tought everywhere, not just at home, and which apparently requires a bloody nose to reconsider.
I noticed this last night when scanning photos I inherited: in the last 20 years or, ID photo prints became so cheap and fugly, they are JUST enough for a person to be identified, whereas ID photos that are older have an astonishing amount of detail in the print (and an absence of compression artifacts), that is not necessary to recognize the person, but makes them seem much more plastic and real, for lack of a better way to describe it.