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Focused lenses and blurred perceptions
Kurt Shillinger
We live in the most surveilled and recorded era in human history. The average resident of a city in the United States or Europe appears on camera dozens of times a day. And that does not account for the ways we capture ourselves and others on our phones. As events in Minneapolis in recent days have shown, however, more camera angles have not resulted in a consensus about those events. One social cost of blurred perceptions, we report today, is diminished trust in government and one another.
