There will be no Holden Caufield

What a fascinating time to be alive! For even the most mundane of matters, such as whether or not we should buy $AAPL, for example, we have the great charts of Asymco and the almost real-time data of Google Finance.

Consider this sorta-supercut of the first minute of every James Bond film, played all at once. I don't care for it but it does offer a useful visual template at understanding changes over time.

Now this, which I think is exceedingly clever. Law enforcement composite sketch software used to determine what famous literary characters actually looked like.

Our tools are enabling us to reach new levels of understanding of that which has already existed, and are creating new forms of awareness where these did not exist before.