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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mikenoodle, post: 496453, member: 307&quot;]The technology is advancing faster than one might imagine. Face recognition software is a good example of this, but not an example of what it does for coins. </p><p><br /></p><p>What does work better for coins are things like detecting the angles at which light refracts off of a surface and the help that it would give determining things like weak strike vs. slight wear. The things that are either too minute for the human eye to detect or too similar to discern are perfect for the computer and in these areas is where I see computers becoming most involved.</p><p><br /></p><p>I am not advocating a complete switch and displacing the human element, what I think would benefit collectors is to use technology to help us determine what we can about the state of preservation, depth of strike, and so on. </p><p><br /></p><p>Introducing newer technologies to help us become better at what we do is what man has done since the dawn of time. Computers may hold the best improvements in grading since the loupe. As with most change, many will be resistant, but in time they will see the benefits and try to adapt the technologies instead of trying to deny their usefulness.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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