Remember “vemödalen,” coined to capture the obscure sorrow of feeling like your “unique” photo has actually been taken by innumerable others? Well, get ready to feel it more.
Check out this collaboration between University of Washington & Google brainiacs:
You can read more details about the project on Wired.
This is all great, fascinating and all that, but .. with no permanent way to keep metadata accurate, ( as far as I know) what is to stop someone to re write the past? I could PS a few images in the field and show past video history in an inaccurate view. Rewrite history? Show Niagra Falls as stopping 3 years ago? or whatever…