Cameras used to be expensive. The ones that found their way into the hands of most consumers were also pretty bad. Those of us old enough to have grown up in that era have the record of lame consumer photography technologies, in the form of hundreds of photos pasted into cardboard framed albums on a bookshelf. These books hold the images of our childhoods, all the standard stuff – baby bath time, a trip to the zoo, a first t-ball game. But each image, though only a couple of decades old maybe, looks like it was photographed in another epoch.

There are visible grains in the images, lighting streaks, focus problems. The pictures look old. If you go back a couple of decades before that, the photos look REALLY old, differences in era and style amplified by more primitive photography techniques. If you go much farther back than that, personal photography collections become more sparse, until the only existing photographs on record were created by professionals. Go back farther still and there are no photos at all. There are paintings, but each of these is just an artist’s rendering of people and places. However realistic, they are an artist’s interpretation of another person or event, not a direct representation of the thing itself.

For these reasons, there is going to be a “BC/AD” moment in history, one that most of us have lived on both sides of. Technologies like the new Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge give the clearest resolution and most vivid color ever made available in a consumer technology. With this device in hand, people are going to be able to record their lives in near-perfect detail. Thus perfected, photographs won’t be dated in the same way they were in decades past. Personal styles will change, but photography will be perfected. Devices like the Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge are instruments of a new era, when our art and history can be passed on in true-life detail. It will change the way future generations interact with history, and give a more detailed picture of it than ever before communicable.

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