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I don’t believe we could ever capture enough photographic and visual data to perfectly re-create the past. So where do you personally stop? That’s the question

I don’t believe we could ever capture enough photographic and visual data to perfectly re-create the past. So where do you personally stop? That’s the question I was asking. It’s sort of a future fear of missing out your suffering from.

wantoncl 3y ago
To offer a counterpoint: https://www.ted.com/talks/blaise_aguera_y_arcas_how_photosynth_can_connect_the_world_s_images https://www.ted.com/talks/blaise_aguera_y_arcas_how_photosyn... Around the 3:30 mark, while discussing Notre Dame Cathedral, consider how useful all those photos (and however many taken since) would be in its post-fire reconstruction. Would anyone present at that demo in 2007 think there were too many photos, especially if they knew it would burn down?