230. Why did it take more than two decades to develop TTG?

Because there were endless “photography-of-the-future” challenges that needed resolving, as published discussions could not be found for many of the subjects addressed on the 500+ pages of this website.

Also noteworthy were the “external” realities of how much the world of communication changed between 2000 and 2020.

Various approaches to “the trust problem” that had seemed promising at the turn of the 21st century — when film was still king — had to be replaced over the next two decades with new solutions to meet the new realities of digital photography.

1. “Digital photography”

• In the year 2000, almost no photographs were made with digital cameras (probably far fewer than 1 percent)

• By the year 2020, almost all photographs were made with digital cameras (probably far more than 99 percent)

2. “The Internet”

• In the year 2000 there were about 17 million websites

• By the year 2020, there were 100 times that many

3. “The smartphone”

• In the year 2000 there were no smartphones

• By the year 2020, there were well over 3 billion smartphones in use (meaning that roughly 3 billion more people now carried a camera with them than had done so just 20 years earlier; see also here).