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Do I have this straight? - Please don’t record me in a public place. - Chill, it’s not a very good camera! The fact that Google sold it as a prosthesis didn’
by neilk 8y ago
Do I have this straight?
- Please don’t record me in a public place.
- Chill, it’s not a very good camera!
The fact that Google sold it as a prosthesis didn’t help. I have a friend whose roommate invited over a guy who refused to take his Google Glass off, because he argued it was a part of him. Exactly what a woman wants to hear when she’s making toast in her pajamas.
Anyway I think the common thread here is when tech takes something that used to be socially symmetric and makes it asymmetric. Having a potentially always-on face camera is different than pulling out your phone. The person using their phone has to stop what they’re doing, and it’s usually pretty obvious that they’re taking a picture. Not so with the face camera person.
Similarly, Duplex takes something that previously required symmetric investment of time and makes it asymmetric. In theory you could have a virtual assistant burn up hours of someone else’s time and it would cost you pennies. Any emotional blowback would be safely absorbed by a relentless robot.
- ocdtrekkie 8y ago> I have a friend whose roommate invited over a guy who refused to take his Google Glass off, because he argued it was a part of him. This just means your friend's roommate's friend is an unpleasant person. Nobody ever asked me to take mine off, but depending on the locale, I probably would have had I been asked. > Having a potentially always-on face camera is different than pulling out your phone. The person using their phone has to stop what they’re doing, and it’s usually pretty obvious that they’re taking a picture. Not so with the face camera person. Google Glass is not an "always-on face camera". As I indicated, it is a 15-minutes-on-at-best face camera, that might literally burn the face of anyone who had it on for fifteen minutes. (Seriously, after the Galaxy Note 7, I'd be a lot more scared of the thing and the LiPo it hangs just behind your ear.) And, also as stated, it's extremely obvious when it's taking a picture.