Ironically, with the advent of the camera-phone, we’re taking more and more photos but looking at them less and less. I really, really do. However, there are limits to the useful, life-enhancing, knowledge-gleaning functions our phones so wonderfully provide. The function in question, which fails on all accounts listed above, is its capacity to record events, public events, for posterity. Not so long ago, a friend sent around a recording taken at a live gig.

Source: The Irish Times March 31, 2026 00:01 UTC