By Joey Alarilla
INQUIRER.net
IF you want clear proof of how much technology has changed our lives, think about how we take camphones and video phones for granted when these were the stuff of sci-fi just a few years ago.
Now that they’re very much a part of our lives, think about our first reaction whenever we see something interesting. Yup, we instinctively whip out our phones and take a pic or video.
Like this one I took of a green mime when my wife Ellen and I were doing the groceries with our five-year-old daughter Sam.
Remember those old jokes about stereotypical Japanese tourists who took pictures of everything with their film cameras (well, it was the Dark Ages, heh)?
Guess what? We’re all turning Japanese!
And what’s even more interesting, is that the natural urge nowadays, especially among the youth, is not just to take a photo or video just to record the moment for posterity, but to share it.
And I don’t mean just share it with friends and family. We want to share it with the whole world, by uploading the videos to sites like YouTube and Yahoo! Video (our partner for our iVDO service). Heck, sometimes we even refer to these as “YouTube moments.”
Like this dog here and his coconut, heh.
Anyway, these embedded clips show moments I’ve captured using my Nokia N90 and uploaded to iVDO. If you think about it, it’s funny how we’ve become so used to having our lives publicly documented, and watching the lives of others. It’s like “The Truman Show” and “EDtv” for real.
So don’t be shy. Share these moments. These days, you don’t have to be on CNN to know the world is watching 
June 13th, 2007 at 6:24 pm
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