July
30, 2013
The other day a forest ranger was
describing how volunteers count butterflies on a certain weekend every year.
She said that the event is set up to avoid, for the most part, counting the
same butterfly twice.
I started wondering if Google Glasses might
someday be programmed to notice the individual differences in each butterfly’s
pattern, so that when a person spots a butterfly the image will immediately be
sent to a database and the computer could tell automatically if that particular
butterfly had already been spotted. It would sure take a lot of the guesswork
out of the situation.
Maybe someday when I’m feeling energetic I’ll contact Google and suggest it.
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