By 1st-hand knowledge, a dream of Polaroids Edwin Land was everyman's instant cameraa small enuf to slip into ones pocket without bulge or weight. That was achieved only recently by Casio' digital cameras currently on market.
The driver now for telecon w camera is security..as mobilephones become ubiquitous, an in-built cam gives revolutionary entrance into realm of security...and security has increasingly broad connotations such as verification/proof/copying uses that are reusuablecost-free or storable/transmittable at little cost.
The limitless reach of security aspects seem to demand the addition of a cam to the mobile in majority of sales from 2004 onward, to be further used in ways not yet apparent.redhot
Governments lie. All governments.[I F Stone/Howard Zinn]