Project glass - new and cool or Big Brotherish?

[Rum]

I am really ambivalent about this. As a gadget geek I like the idea, but it is also one more step towards total reliability on technology. What do you think?

[JacksSmirkingRevenge]

You will be assimilated.

[Ronja]

If all that was in my field of vision while I was walking and most of it was popping up unexpectedly, I would likely
a) become seasick (I'm very sensitive to motion sickness - can feel queasy watching a wild enough movie - like some of the flying scenes in Avatar)
b) become extremely irritable. I want and need my me time / quiet time, and I prefer to choose when to interact with others. Making a note by talking to a computer would be OK while walking, but not much more, methinks.

I really do not like the idea of reporting my whereabouts - I know too much about computer, network and information security to feel comfortable with my movements being shared over any digital connection with any system or person.

Another thing entirely is that this technology could be used very creatively for, say, brainstorming or information seeking, also when working as a group.

[JacksSmirkingRevenge]

I really do not like the idea of reporting my whereabouts - I know too much about computer, network and information security to feel comfortable with my movements being shared over any digital connection with any system or person.

This.
The technology has enormous criminal potential as well as huge authoritarian snoop factor.

[Robert_S]

Current top comment:

Finally i can masturbate on a plane and no one can see the video but me

[Audley Strange]

I love it. That level of augmented reality will lead to a form of epidemic learned helplessness where the "hip" and the gullible will be merely one EM pulse away from dining on each other's flesh and being enslaved by the first person able to tie their own laces without a fucking app to guide them.

[Ronja]

Holy shoot! Why did I not think of this immediately.

If suitable networks can be rebuilt (likely chopper lifted) quickly into a disaster area, this could be a really good technology for mapping the damage. The first responders need to go in anyway, so if even one in each team has those glasses, the speed and accuracy with which information could be collected would be at least two orders of magnitude better than with anything we have currently. The estimates could become a lot more reliable, I think, about the number and age&health profiles of survivors, the types of injuries and other health problems they have, the extent and type of damage to infrastructure and the need for tools, materials, medicines etc.

Heck, the person with the glasses might even carry their own mini base station or enhanced satellite sender in a backpack, and still have their hands free.

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[Coito ergo sum]

It will, I'm sure, be made practical. it, and the same thing for contact lenses, will certainly become a reality. http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/0 ... y-glasses/

Eventually, an implant will be possible which will be connected to the nervous system.

It's coming, and nothing will stop it.

[Animavore]

Want!

[Seabass]

Both cool and big brotherish. Let's face it, it's kinda scary, but when it gets here, we're all going to do it 'cause we're suckers for high tech.

[Rum]

It is already difficult to know what one would do without the internet, let alone mobile phones and even TV. They are great when they are working properly too of course, but when they beak down - I don't know about you, but with the net in particular, I feel a real sense of deprivation.

Imagine getting really dependent on this technology and it suddenly being pulled out from under you. It might feel like the loss of one of your senses!

[Svartalf]

I would find life miserable without the internet... but don't have a mobile, and it bothers me like 3/year, and have been doing without the telly for like 15 years and miss it only when trying to understand what watchers are taliking about.
I mean, 80% of what passes for my social life is on the net, and I need it as a source of information, especially since I don't have a proper encyclopedia at home.

and I really don't know what to do with that thing... one hand, it loos like it could be really useful, the other, getting that on your glasses with minimal control could be a fekking annoyance.

[Robert_S]

This looks somewhat relevant:

[mistermack]

It looks great. But it could be one stage better, if you got rid of that annoying human altogether.

[Coito ergo sum]

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2013/04/ ... get+Lab%29

These things are going to change our culture.

Soon, one will have to just assume that everything one says to another person may wind up on the internet. It is going to do two main things: (1) it will effect how people behave, and (2) it will effect how much people care about other people's behavior. I.e. - it's going to get so commonplace to see people doing the stuff we normally don't want to get caught doing, that people will stop caring.