Little brother is going to be everywhere

Remember how George Orwell warned about Big Brother in 1984? Well he got it all wrong. Big Brother is nothing compared to the power of "little brother" images described here.

Little Brother - my name for the technology - is all about harnessing the combined power of thousands upon thousands of photographs from domestic to professional images that may have been taken of the same subjects. Imagine a Wickipedia of images, each of them tagged with notes and bits of information posted by millions of people.

Imagine a detailed photograph of your house with labels saying who lives there, who used to live there, who built it, how much it sold for, where the stones came from, the name of the rose growing over the door. All this is possible with the technology described here.

Big Brother was all about the power of one. This is about the combined power of millions.