Per Google, "Disruptive technology is an innovation that significantly alters the way that consumers, industries, or businesses operate. A disruptive technology sweeps away the systems or habits it replaces because it has attributes that are recognizably superior."
Cell phone videos have been a disruptive technology on so many levels. Your every action can be recorded, including and especially on the internet. The cell phone cameras, body cameras, intersection cameras, cameras inside and outside businesses, and cameras in front of private residences: everything you do can and will be used against you in the court of public opinion if not the law. Cameras are regularly used to fight crime, and racism is criminal. In the murder of George Floyd the world witnessed racist criminal police brutality at it's most extreme.
If you are a racist and you are caught on camera you may be prosecuted to the full extent of the law, especially if you are the law. Friends and family will shun you. You will no longer be welcome in your neighborhood. You are likely to be fired and your career will be in jeopardy. You will be showered with hatred on and off the internet, but mostly on it. Off the internet, you will need to change your evil ways and rebuild your life, or live in it's ruins. When and if you are released from prison.
The camera continues to move our society forward. Per Google, "The world's first photograph made in a camera was taken in 1826 by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce. The photograph was taken from the upstair's windows of Niépce's estate in the Burgundy region of France".
RIP George Floyd, you did not die in vain. It's taken nearly 200 years, but the camera is being utilized routinely to record racist acts, rants, slurs and police brutality. This disruptive technology is altering our society today. We have lost privacy with all these cameras, but that's a price that we all must pay to expose police brutality and racism.
Thank you to everyone who pulls out their cell phones when they see racists, citizens and police, doing racist evil. Remember, your camera is your superpower and it will prevail. Thank you to my old classmate Tim Miller for pointing out that now there's an app to streamline reports of misconduct to the ACLU: ACLU Police Conduct App