A Future Library Service?

This would be pretty cool, which is good since we’re headed in this direction already. Take this story: Entire Cities Recreated Using Thousands of Flickr Photos “A group of researchers with University of Washington’s graphics and imaging laboratory (GRAIL) wanted to see if they could build a piece of software that would search the web for images of a particular place and recreate that place in 3D in under a day. They succeeded, and the team, lead by Sameer Agarwal, created a simulation of Rome using 150,000 images harvested from photo-sharing website Flickr, and build a virtual model...