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Your vision is well thought out and fairly realistic. I hate it though. Absolutely hate it. The potential applications you describe around dating or knowledge
by mattbierner 8y ago
Your vision is well thought out and fairly realistic. I hate it though. Absolutely hate it.
The potential applications you describe around dating or knowledge display literally make the wearer see the world as a set of data points, which—while quite 2018—I believe is incredibly dangerous even without bad actors. It does not leave room for anything that doesn't fit into some arbitrary set of database columns or set of graph nodes or ML model; no room for nuance; no allowance for change or for the unknown or for the unexpected. Eventually, the data overlays stop augmenting reality and come to defined reality itself.
My ideal smart glasses would let me see and experience differently; see new spectrums of light or watch music dance through the air. In a world with no bad actors, AR adventures would take me new places and introduce me to new people. Visual augmentations would let me try on new personas or express myself in new ways. Reality itself becomes hackable.
If history is any guide, the future that I dream of will never come to pass and in 20 years these words will seem as quaint as those of early internet utopians. And yet I still have to believe in it—and I will still keep trying to explore it—because the bland, data dystopia that you unwittingly offered a sneak peak of is just too horrible.
- Lorkki 8y ago> It does not leave room for anything that doesn't fit into some arbitrary set of database columns or set of graph nodes or ML model; no room for nuance; no allowance for change or for the unknown or for the unexpected. Why not, though? Obviusly that sets limits on what kind of output the device itself can produce from each source of data, but that's not your entire experience of life as its user. To me it seems akin to saying that carrying a scrapbook would make you live in the past.