Photos, Everybody Knows. Rerun #54

Digital cameras are now ubiquitous, every body has got one. It is estimated that 2.5 billion people in the world today have a digital camera. If the average person snaps 25 photos this year that would be a staggering 400 billion photos. And yet there are some blogs on Oahu that would like to get just one photo and - No can. - Hint.

"A person is rich in proportion to the number of things

they can afford to let alone."

That might sound implausible but this year people will upload over 70 billion photos to Facebook alone. And it is very probable that there will be over one billion photos uploaded daily to the various micros promoting photos. Already Facebook’s photo collection has a staggering 150 billion photos, that’s over 10,000 times larger than the Library of Congress. That last photo you forgot to email. Somebody missed it? Heh Heh.

"Tiny Bubbles" by Don Ho

Even accounting for population growth the exponential growth of photos is incredible. We now take 4 times as many photos as 10 years ago. Today every party, birthday, sports game and concert is documented in rich detail. The combination of all these photos is a rich portrait of today and that could be included in the blogs of Oahu. Would be nice for all of us.