October, 1999: 1.3 Megapixels Oughta Be Enough For Just About Anybody

Picture of a man on 6th Avenue, October 22, 1999. Stealth photography was in its dying days in 1999. Today you need a 46-megapixel sensor in your retina to get usable street photography pictures without the publicly paranoid suspiciously singling you out for shame. Even then you’d run the risk of being noticed that your jittery eyeballs are snapping up photographs of public people in public spaces. I said a long time ago: The 21st century will be known as The Public Century. One word will sum up our century: Public.