It's only a bad article in the sense that it proposes synthetic photography as a good thing. The general public, however, might well embrace it one step at a ti

It's only a bad article in the sense that it proposes synthetic photography as a good thing. The general public, however, might well embrace it one step at a time, accepting what I agree are terrible consequences. Cameras won't go away overnight. Lower-quality cameras instead become acceptable, as the results are uploaded to and enhanced in "the cloud". You eventually won't be able to capture certain images, but the predictable majority of synthetic "photos" taken by most people will work just fine, with better quality on cheaper, thinner devices. Heck, scatter some subtle product placement in the results, and the whole endeavor can be subsidized. Then we ban real cameras and end child-pornography. You're not against that, are you? Finally, we can conveniently alter any photos that might embarrass corporate or government interests! How delightfully dystopian.