"Shortly after the horrifying events of 9/11, a story was widely circulated that a camera that somehow survived the collapsed New York WTC Twin Towers was found on a sidewalk. When the film was developed, it revealed a tourist on the World Trade Center observation deck with a low-flying plane in the background and about to crash into the building! Many people believe in that incredible shot and that “Tourist Guy” became a folklore… ha ha ha.
Of course, the image is a fake. The North Tower had no open observation deck; it's the wrong type of plane at the wrong angle; that Tourist Guy has been identified as a 25-year-old Hungarian named Peter and on his way to becoming the most digitally manipulated person in history! Check it out at http://touristofdeath.com/" Screenshots
this except shows that manipulation is occurring throughout daily life in news and specifically in relation major world events.
many have seen the following picture in realtion to abu ghraib:
This picture was captured on a mobile phone - technology that would not have been available or really even thought of not only a few years ago. The development of technology in terms of surveillance over the past couple of years, the shot in Men in Back where a satellite zooms down to see the face up close of K's old girlfriend is not even that hard to imagine. Surely that technology now exists, we can see instances of this even within Google earth.The notions present within science fiction film concerning this type of issue - are they really about paranoia or simply seeing how technology is changing so much and being aware of it?
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