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When Google made their own glasses we called them "glassholes", but since Mark Schmuckerberg is so in love with Neal Stephenson's metaverse maybe we should call
by eigengrau5150 5y ago
When Google made their own glasses we called them "glassholes", but since Mark Schmuckerberg is so in love with Neal Stephenson's metaverse maybe we should call people who wear Facebook shades in public "gargoyles".
> Gargoyles are no fun to talk to. They never finish a sentence. They are adrift in a laser-drawn world, scanning retinas in all directions . . . You think they’re talking to you, but they’re actually poring over the credit record of some stranger on the other side of the room, or identifying the make and model of airplanes flying overhead.
- bryan0 5y agoAmazing. Stephenson’s prose is almost 30 years old and his colorful prediction of AR has not aged a day!