> Imagine if in the early days of Photoshop a law had been passed to require notification that an image was edited. Every image we encounter today would have to

> Imagine if in the early days of Photoshop a law had been passed to require notification that an image was edited. Every image we encounter today would have to contain that warning text. Maybe pictures of anorexic models would have been less appealing back then, and therefore fashion would have evolved differently? Maybe young folks today would feel less required to conform? It's really hard to predict what an alternate reality would have been, if you don't rely on the hypothesis that any divergence would be extremely limited in scope, or similar to another case where wildly different forces and goals apply.