Since purchasing my first digital camera (Nikon Coolpix) in year 2000 and using it to document the new Dean of Students website for Purdue, I have been keeping a photo library. Year after year of backing up, storing, tagging, upgrading storage space, and assembling data in the hopes that it wouldn’t just be the story of a life well-lived but also one of rich historical data that would help train computer algorithms to lead to a smarter world. Self-driving cars, AI-driven disease detection, advanced drone medical deployment in rural cities, really the universe is the limit. Sometime last month I passed the 100,000 mark and after reading the Economist article titled ‘Mirror Worlds’ about refining imaging data like oil, now more than ever Local Guides are empowered to make an impact. Have you been carefully saving? Don’t delete that bad photo - it may still yet be useful to an ‘untrained’ artificial eye!
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