Actually a unique concept, the film roll. Unfakeable. A physical, analogue, chemical process, not to be copied. Once upon a time a photo could only be multiplied by taking a photo of it. Loss of quality. But still a film roll.
Kodak invented the digital camera
Look at this beautiful Kodak timeline: 128 years of Kodak . Innovative Kodak went bankrupt in 2012 and came back a year later, stripped, pale and much smaller. The digital plague had done its work. The inventor of the digital camera? Make no mistake, it was Kodak, in 1975. It was Steve Sasson who, with Kodak, had built a camera the size of a toaster ( Independent ). The age of electronic circuits. Storage on a cassette tape. It took 23 seconds to send a photo to a TV screen. Great invention.
Great opportunities, the board of Kodak also spoke. But: don't tell anyone, because it would mean the end of the yellow box. So don't do it. It reminds me of the words of Nokia CEO Stephen Elop in the press conference announcing that Nokia had been acquired by Microsoft. "We didn't do anything wrong, but somehow, we lost."
We didn't do anything wrong, but somehow, we lost .
It's an approximation. He didn't do anything australia whatsapp number wrong. Read: he didn't do anything. Only he didn't know that it was wrong.
The Blockchain and the Internet of Assets
Earlier I wrote about the blockchain and the difference between the internet of information and the internet of assets . My approach was that the internet has perfected the art of distributing information, with all the advantages and disadvantages that entails. Film, music, photos, they all suffer from it. And that blockchain can play a role in the fair allocation of assets. For example, money, an airplane seat, music, the rent of an apartment, anywhere where the ' double spent problem ' can rear its head. An airplane seat may not be occupied twice. Money that is transferred is first with one person, then with the other. Never with both at the same time, not even for a moment.
That was of course also the fear of John McDermott, the Egyptian country manager of Kodak. Analogue photography was not affected by the danger of doublespent. And professional photographers can join a rights collective such as Magnum Photos, which supplies photos to, for example, the press, publishers and advertisers and takes care of the fair distribution of the money to which the photographers are entitled. An intermediary, in other words. A broker in photos.