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Same as for google glasses. Shame the person wearing them and refuse to hang out with them. All the glassholes seemed to get it pretty quickly.

filoleg 7y ago
Yeah, that’s totally why google glass failed, not because the product and the UX were subpar.
- jimbob45 7y ago
  Google glass kinda seems like the inventions in this sketch, where it's clear that it could have a purpose one day and it's designed well, but right now, it just seems mostly foolish. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oa_hiLXLbTc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oa_hiLXLbTc
- dawg- 7y ago
  Exactly, google glass was ugly and boring. That's why Google spinoff Niantic pivoted to gamify AR with Pokemon GO in order to take a different strategy. The idea was to get people comfortable with it using the cultural capital of Pokemon; then comes the next version of Google Glass.
NikolaNovak 7y ago
Hmm, are we supposed to also shame everybody with a mainstream smartphone ("Hey Siri" / "OK Google"), home hub, etc? That's a LOT of shaming, when here I thought we were already shaming people quite sufficiently/too much... :-/ Honestly, never quite got the hate on Google Glass - they merely made it obvious and convenient, what so much accepted technology already does anyway :-/
- NikolaNovak 7y ago
  Aaaaaaaand... ironically and conveniently.... https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01G62GWS4 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01G62GWS4 Echo Frames... apparently, not enough shaming;)
fortran77 7y ago
Do you really thing "shaming people" is an appropriate, mature response?
- petschge 7y ago
  In my opinion a lot of societal problems that we have exist because we don't shame people for bad decisions any more. 100 years ago the idiot in the village knew they were the idiot. Sure their life sucked. But now all of the idiots of all villages form their own little filter bubble and convince each other that they are the smart ones and that the rest of the world got it all wrong. Sounds like an improvement until you realize that this is the mechanism behind anti-vaxx, flat-earth, obama-birther, climate-change-denial and so on. Or in other words a lot of modern stupidit y that actually kills people. So yes, I think clearly saying "I think you are stupid for wearing google glasses and I will not have a beer with you as long as you do" is a mature response. At that point they have to decide if they want to have google glasses or friends.
  - sixstringtheory 7y ago
    > "I think you are stupid for wearing google glasses and I will not have a beer with you as long as you do" is a mature response Disagree. If I had a friend who seriously called me stupid, I'd think they're an asshole, not mature. I'd say "I don't feel comfortable around that device, would you mind putting it away while we have a beer?" is mature. Making something about someone else, or trying to control others' actions, is not mature. Communicating your needs and concerns is where it's at.
  - clownpenis_fart 7y ago
    But now all of the idiots of all villages form their own little filter bubble and convince each other that they are the smart ones and that the rest of the world got it all wrong. Amen. Thankfully, hackernews are the smart people.
- ben509 7y ago
  It's definitely not a mature response; I don't feel the righteous fury about these kinds of things that I did 20 years ago. As to whether it's appropriate... social opprobrium can often be a less worse way to deal with a problem than ignoring it or going to the law. And it could be positive; when someone dislikes how a person is behaving, they tend to form a caricature of that person. By confronting them, they're forced to deal with a real person who will defend their behavior, and it tends to replace that caricature with a more nuanced view.

filoleg 7y ago

Yeah, that’s totally why google glass failed, not because the product and the UX were subpar.

jimbob45 7y ago
Google glass kinda seems like the inventions in this sketch, where it's clear that it could have a purpose one day and it's designed well, but right now, it just seems mostly foolish. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oa_hiLXLbTc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oa_hiLXLbTc
dawg- 7y ago
Exactly, google glass was ugly and boring. That's why Google spinoff Niantic pivoted to gamify AR with Pokemon GO in order to take a different strategy. The idea was to get people comfortable with it using the cultural capital of Pokemon; then comes the next version of Google Glass.

NikolaNovak 7y ago

Hmm, are we supposed to also shame everybody with a mainstream smartphone ("Hey Siri" / "OK Google"), home hub, etc? That's a LOT of shaming, when here I thought we were already shaming people quite sufficiently/too much... :-/ Honestly, never quite got the hate on Google Glass - they merely made it obvious and convenient, what so much accepted technology already does anyway :-/

NikolaNovak 7y ago
Aaaaaaaand... ironically and conveniently.... https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01G62GWS4 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01G62GWS4 Echo Frames... apparently, not enough shaming;)

fortran77 7y ago

Do you really thing "shaming people" is an appropriate, mature response?

petschge 7y ago
In my opinion a lot of societal problems that we have exist because we don't shame people for bad decisions any more. 100 years ago the idiot in the village knew they were the idiot. Sure their life sucked. But now all of the idiots of all villages form their own little filter bubble and convince each other that they are the smart ones and that the rest of the world got it all wrong. Sounds like an improvement until you realize that this is the mechanism behind anti-vaxx, flat-earth, obama-birther, climate-change-denial and so on. Or in other words a lot of modern stupidit y that actually kills people. So yes, I think clearly saying "I think you are stupid for wearing google glasses and I will not have a beer with you as long as you do" is a mature response. At that point they have to decide if they want to have google glasses or friends.
- sixstringtheory 7y ago
  > "I think you are stupid for wearing google glasses and I will not have a beer with you as long as you do" is a mature response Disagree. If I had a friend who seriously called me stupid, I'd think they're an asshole, not mature. I'd say "I don't feel comfortable around that device, would you mind putting it away while we have a beer?" is mature. Making something about someone else, or trying to control others' actions, is not mature. Communicating your needs and concerns is where it's at.
- clownpenis_fart 7y ago
  But now all of the idiots of all villages form their own little filter bubble and convince each other that they are the smart ones and that the rest of the world got it all wrong. Amen. Thankfully, hackernews are the smart people.
ben509 7y ago
It's definitely not a mature response; I don't feel the righteous fury about these kinds of things that I did 20 years ago. As to whether it's appropriate... social opprobrium can often be a less worse way to deal with a problem than ignoring it or going to the law. And it could be positive; when someone dislikes how a person is behaving, they tend to form a caricature of that person. By confronting them, they're forced to deal with a real person who will defend their behavior, and it tends to replace that caricature with a more nuanced view.