Geotagged photos (e.g. flickr
) and text (e.g. twitter
) associate data to a particular point on the globe × time. In other words, a fibre bundle over S²×T.
Imagine the position future historians will be in – if they can synthesise the petabytes of digital data we generate these days. I would love to have crowd-sourced pictures or live-tweeting bystanders’ microblogs of the Yan tie lun 鹽鐵論 (81 B.C.) – Rashomon effect be damned.