I'm American and I don't consider myself to be brainwashed nor do I find anything horrifying about this technology being deployed by our military or by anyone e

I'm American and I don't consider myself to be brainwashed nor do I find anything horrifying about this technology being deployed by our military or by anyone else's military. I think that once you have developed tech like this it is inevitable that someone down the line will attempt to fit it into their own use case. For heads-up goggles that incorporate real-time information and allow a user to understand more about their local environment than they could with their natural senses I think it is inevitable that a military use case would be high on the list. Once something like this is deployed by one nation, others find themselves needing to develop similar tools to maintain parity and they will focus their attention on meeting that goal or they will attempt to purchase or steal this tech from those that already have it. Will that lead to more destruction, more control of the globe by America? Is the rest of the world shivering in their boots at the thought that American troops may eventually deploy with these cool goggles? I doubt it. I don't know where you are from and I'm not in the habit of scouring other people's post histories in an attempt to find a reason to disagree with them or to criticize them. I just think you may be being a bit hyperbolic here and that you are failing to consider that the US military will not be the only military actively utilizing this tech. I think we should all, regardless of where we are from and where we call home, be mindful that a lot of the technology being developed in Silicon Valley and other tech hubs will have a potential military use case and that some of it will be actively financed and supported by governments to that end, knowing that there will also be civilian use cases that can be explored and commercialized. There is an active tech trend of improving tools that can be used for active surveillance of civilian populations; improving methods of identifying individuals who buy and use common products so that you can either slam them with ads for your product or use more discreet tools to suggest that they should switch products; developing technology that has the effect of throwing all of us into the pool of potential suspects, etc. Those things worry me more than any goggles will. A lot of people here on HN work writing the code that robs us all of our privacy rights, our individuality, our ability to live what used to be normal lives in relative obscurity. Those are the things that I consider more subversive since the people know in advance how their tool will be used and they actively work to optimize the functionality that in some cases actively destroys society and any sense of community that we formerly enjoyed. Perhaps a trip to the mirror is in order? You can answer that for yourself better than I can.