I think you’ve taken this to an extreme that I didn’t. I’m explaining why women traveling alone might not want strange men to know their name and destination.

I think you’ve taken this to an extreme that I didn’t. I’m explaining why women traveling alone might not want strange men to know their name and destination. But if you want to debate the merits: It’s unclear to me that this particular technology constitutes progress in a meaningful way. Show me my flight info on my smart glasses, or play me a recording of my gate info over my earbuds. I’m not interested in some janky billboard I have to stand in front of to get a tiny bit of information that is in no way hard to find. I certainly don’t believe the benefits of this tech justify any level of privacy loss. Again, if targeting is sufficiently good, maybe this is a non issue. Generally I lean toward the view that the right amount of privacy to trade for technology is “none.” But I’m willing to make exceptions for particularly useful innovation.