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In late January, Google Senior Vice President Vic Gundotra, responding to a question on the social news site Reddit, said that his company was considering implementing bitcoin capabilities, and asked users how they would like to see Google work with bitcoin. Over the next several days suggestions poured into the discussion, hosted by Google. Below are 13 of the 1,395 ideas submitted to Google. Most center around enabling bitcoin payments within Google’s ecosystem, but a few are considerably more ambitious.

Develop a secure user-friendly wallet

Implement bitcoin payments into Google Play Store, Checkout, AdSense/AdWords, etc.

Build point-of-sale payment systems for merchants, online and offline

Add bitcoin market data to Google Now and Google Finance, treating Bitcoin like a stock

Display bitcoin (BTC not XBT) as a currency in Google search like CAD and USD, not like a stock

Integrate bitcoin into Google APIs, and then let developers build solutions and mashups on top of those APIs

Bitcoin/Litecoin/Dogecoin tips on YouTube — content creators can be paid directly by watchers

Integrate blockexplorer (a way to view bitcoin transactions) into search results

Build a general mobile payments system that is user-friendly and based on bitcoin

Expand into money services to grow financial inclusion for the underbanked via bitcoin

Turn bitcoin into Google’s PayPal, allowing for easy payments internet-wide & expand into the real world like a free debit card system, competing with banks

Enable simple peer-to-peer payments within a contact list and facilitate buying bitcoins with dollars

In any case, established photographers don't necessarily have to worry about the democratisation of their medium. "I'll survive in this profession because I have skills," says Olmos. "I'm a storyteller in images; my compositions are better than most people's. Just because you've got a microprocessor in your computer doesn't make you a writer. And just because you've got an Instagram app on your phone you aren't a great photographer."

“It’s not about optics engineers and image scientists that much anymore,” Mr. Chute said. “The focus on hardware, which has driven [Canon and Nikon] to success over fifty years – the ground has shifted underneath them and it’s all software.”