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bioemerl  ·  3325 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Yale digitalizes 170000 Great Depression photos

I can't wait until the computer programs we make are smart enough to organize, sort, and put forward this information, with large amounts of understanding, at a moments notice.

There is so much information, spread around, about all our lives, our pasts, the things that define who we are, especially with facebook and so on being a thing. It may well be that in the future a random person can just find any person and get a somewhat realistic idea of who they really were, what the times were like, what drove us to act.

Right now, it's such a massive amount of information, and so few real structures or man-hours are set up to deal with their organization that it's all going to waste. I get the feeling that "machine learning" type dealing with all this will be the next huge thing to hit society.