Digital Record of London Bombings
You can't hide anything, nowadays.
Sometimes, you shouldn't be able to.
The Digital Age accelerates our ability to know the world every minute of the day. If we get lucky, generations to follow might even do more than just consume images and sound. They might begin to learn from this flow of data.
This photo shows the rucksack used in the bus bombing, yesterday. The logo of the gymnasium selling the bag has been identified. The yellow packing materials apparently were stuffed around the bomb in the bag.
This was taken from the front window of an apartment overlooking Hackney Road in East London. After the failed bombing attempts, the tube stations were shut down -- the #26 bus was halted at the roadside -- while police recovered forensic information. In the case of the bus, they evacuated the businesses in the immediate vicinity. They didn’t remove anyone from the apartments typically located above neighborhood stores on London streets.
The resident in one of those apartments calmly called CNN and offered a step-by-step description of what was going on. I heard him, live, just after the terrorist attack. I presume it was his digital camera, still or video, that took this picture. It appeared on Sky News, first. Then, it appeared in the SUN, the UK’s biggest newspaper.
Can you imagine how Kennedy’s assassination might have been recorded -- in 2005?
Posted: Fri - July 22, 2005 at 07:13 AM