[creed]

First of all: I think this is a very cool idea. It's like a generalised Pokedex! Imagine you could just take a foto of something with your phone and ask the Index what it is, how cool's that? :D

So yeah, I get why people are connecting this with wikipedia but to me that's not the point. Wikipedia is a knowledge base of important stuff people want to seriously look up.

With the pokedex I can just snapshot some sneakers the guy next to me wears on the tube and get the some infos and maybe personal opinions. It's way more silly and informal but thats what you get when you can add ANYthing.

Think about it, I could add my old Gameboy and have people share their memories and good ol' stories about "back in the day". You could even add your old dog and if somebody asks the index about your dog it will say "That's Dave's dog" xD

This "thing" is way more personal, individual, informal than Wikipedia. Wikipedia is as steril as an OR, with sharp knowledge like a scalpel.

This is just things. Simple, but I can definitely see a trajectory where we end up thinking: how did people live without it? :D

(not this particular version, but if you take the idea and turn it up to 11)