It is only when I can no longer tell what is truth or what is fiction that I am most frightened by the computer-television monster. When I was a little kid you could tell when somebody was messing around with a photographed or video image. You could actually see when something wasn t real because the lighting wouldn t be the same for all of the subjects in a frame or the color would be off to a certain degree or the resolution would be low in one place but not in another. Today, that has all changed thanks to the level of the technology that is used to fool people. The same generation who believed that something was real because they saw it on television or in a newspaper picture is now being manipulated with phony images that look as real as any snapshot taken of a family member.
Many old people have no idea that what they are seeing is unreal.
What they fail to realize is the fact that what they were seeing were manipulated images. This is where technology comes in to alter the perception of many Americans. Technology has an evil side in that application and I think that this is very, very dangerous. Yes, there are some image enhancements that are obviously fake no matter how pixel-perfect they happen to be. If TV broadcasts a video of Janet Reno wearing a hot pink bikini and dancing on the beach with Michael Jordan, my logic detector would tell me that what I am seeing is a lie.