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I would have thought that getting more people to take photos would actually help in the enjoyment of photography, however you wish to define what a photograph is.

 

 

 

Making more people shooting a trigger doesn't mean that they enjoy "photography": means only they enjoy shooting a trigger. All the technology we're talking about is basically an evolution of point-and-shoot: make me shoot more photos, more quickly, without thinking of it too much; this goes to the direction of mass-made products, not artistic products. We'll see floods of selfies, with the same backgrounds, filling the socials and being quickly forgotten, because more selfies will flood. The opposite of an artistic photography, that will stand by the time.

 

The problem of "democratisation of art" is known, and it has already turned into mass-made product music, for instance. The good way of educating people to an art doesn't totally focus on making people more or less capable to "produce" art objects, but first of all learning from masters. Easening the "production" of objects will make more and more people less willingly to study, and focusing all their enthusiasm on the latest iPhone model rather than opening a book of Ansel Adams or such.