That's exactly the type of functionality I favor, a well. My concern is that tech providers will increasingly try to organize our lives. It's rather creepy at some level. It's as if they are saying "No, we know better. We know how you REALLY need to organize your photos."
While that's a valid way of looking at things, it's not the only way. Some people would never want a Downton Abbey-style household staff, no matter how rich they imagine they might someday be - way too creepy to have all those people witnessing your life. Others want to have the assistance, and are willing to expose themselves a bit (or a lot), delegate tasks, etc.
Specific to photo libraries... some people are really into creating their own albums, slideshows, etc. Others just keep taking photos and never get around to doing something with them. For the latter, this could be super - the results are not likely to be what they would have created themselves, but since they never create it... anything beats nothing just about any day of the week. When they show up at Aunt Sally's house for a visit, they'll have a reasonable well-edited presentation to show off, instead of flipping through every bad image taken at the Twins' birthday. If it works anywhere near as well as the demos, a fair number of people are going to love this.
When you say "tech providers will increasingly try to organize our lives," well, yeah! That's fundamental to computing - handing off mundane tasks to the machine, so we don't have to spend time doing things we probably wouldn't have spent time doing in the first place. This is about
personal computing - doing things that people find useful to their daily lives. If people don't find these things useful, then the company fails.
This kind of personalization requires trust, so it is a matter of who can earn that trust. There's not going to be universal agreement on who is or is not to be trusted with this. Maybe you trust nobody but yourself, so you'll do without this kind of assistance altogether (or do without). That's your choice.
I can't think of a step in the history of technology, perhaps going as far back as the development of agriculture, perhaps even farther back than that, when people weren't leery of or resistant to change. It's a necessary counterbalance to unbridled change. But change will occur, and considering how disorganized most of our lives are, how long our list of to-do items (even though we rarely put them on to-do lists), how easily distracted some of us are; I don't see the trend towards "organizing our lives" ending anytime soon - far too many people want it and need it.
