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Am I the only one who thinks Google Glass is a bad idea? We already trusted our virtual life to google (emails, what we do, etc). Are we sure that we are read

Am I the only one who thinks Google Glass is a bad idea? We already trusted our virtual life to google (emails, what we do, etc). Are we sure that we are ready to trust our real(physical) life too? Don't get me wrong... It seems like a cool project but I wouldn't use it, maybe I am getting too old :/

AnthonyMouse 14y ago
It doesn't bother me much for a simple reason: Sutherland's wheel of reincarnation applies to cloud computing. Right now there isn't enough processing power or storage on a portable device to store everything you would want out of a thing like this, but give it time. And then it's hardware, it doesn't have to be ad supported -- the device can know all about you, but it's your device. So that's one possible future. And the tech they're developing is pretty agnostic to whether the information it collects is stored in the cloud or just on the device, so let's try not to be too pessimistic about something cool just yet.
- Evbn 14y ago
  Google's software is almost completely reliant on the Internet to function (except for occasional offline caching), and the exceptions are nearly all legacy apps.
- cyphersanctus 14y ago
  True, then again the temptation for them to start feeding you personalized real time ads, were your whole life is their ad canvas, might be too great to resist. Lets wait and see.
mtgx 14y ago
I trust Google right now to anonymize the data they get from me, and to hide it from their own employees. What I wouldn't trust in this future is the Government to have easy access to this data, to see everything I've been watching and doing, and passing new laws to access this data even without warrants. To me that's orders of magnitude scarier than a company using the anonymized data to send me more relevant ads on web pages, on which I'll probably still be able to use Adblock.
- pmelendez 14y ago
  That's part of the problem, in times of war the US Government would ask that data for "national security" sake and once they got it there is not turn back.
Gring 14y ago
Absolutely. The problem is that the project is driven by Sergey Brin, who trusts his company completely. Privacy would have to built into the project on many layers. Without a push to do so from above, they won't.

AnthonyMouse 14y ago

It doesn't bother me much for a simple reason: Sutherland's wheel of reincarnation applies to cloud computing. Right now there isn't enough processing power or storage on a portable device to store everything you would want out of a thing like this, but give it time. And then it's hardware, it doesn't have to be ad supported -- the device can know all about you, but it's your device. So that's one possible future. And the tech they're developing is pretty agnostic to whether the information it collects is stored in the cloud or just on the device, so let's try not to be too pessimistic about something cool just yet.

Evbn 14y ago
Google's software is almost completely reliant on the Internet to function (except for occasional offline caching), and the exceptions are nearly all legacy apps.
cyphersanctus 14y ago
True, then again the temptation for them to start feeding you personalized real time ads, were your whole life is their ad canvas, might be too great to resist. Lets wait and see.

mtgx 14y ago

I trust Google right now to anonymize the data they get from me, and to hide it from their own employees. What I wouldn't trust in this future is the Government to have easy access to this data, to see everything I've been watching and doing, and passing new laws to access this data even without warrants. To me that's orders of magnitude scarier than a company using the anonymized data to send me more relevant ads on web pages, on which I'll probably still be able to use Adblock.

pmelendez 14y ago
That's part of the problem, in times of war the US Government would ask that data for "national security" sake and once they got it there is not turn back.

Gring 14y ago

Absolutely. The problem is that the project is driven by Sergey Brin, who trusts his company completely. Privacy would have to built into the project on many layers. Without a push to do so from above, they won't.