Today I went through all of the photos that I took with my phone for the last five years. There were a lot of photos.
There are particular photos that are very vivid in my mind, to which I have a strong personal memory or connection. I found myself looking for those photos in particular.
I eventually found them, but only after doing a chronological linear search through all the photos I had taken. This doesn’t seem right to me.
I can imagine, in the future, some way that our photos become automatically tagged because some biometric system detects that we have a strong emotional connection to them. I am sure that any such system would be imperfect at first, and it might take some time for your computer to correctly learn to accurately read your emotional states.
But over time, such systems would continually improve. Eventually, you should have no trouble finding the photos that really matter to you.
And isn’t that what we really want?