This article seems to piggyback on the recent meme of 'technology can be useful but also asocial and isolating/Why I deactivated my Facebook/Twitter/Google+', w

This article seems to piggyback on the recent meme of 'technology can be useful but also asocial and isolating/Why I deactivated my Facebook/Twitter/Google+', which I agree with, but she is a bit too preachy; please tell me why exactly Glass is bad, not just some general appeals to the bad side-effects of modern consumer gadgets. > On the other hand, for myriad kinds of workers, I can see Glass being an extraordinarily helpful, hands-free tool. Imagine working on an airplane engine and having the manual right in front of you or using it to photograph and catalog new species during a deep-sea diving expedition. Imagine being someone who has to fix his sink, so he has to bust out a manual and figure out the sink at the same time... oh wait, turns out this nugget doesn't only apply to professional contexts. Consumer-applications ← not just playing casual games and updating social media about what you had for dinner. I can see Glass being excellent for some things, while maybe not being ideal for most of the things that you do. Imagine that you are in a foreign country and don't speak the language and you want to talk to someone; do you bust out your smart phone and let the other person spell out the words, then have them played back to you or you read it yourself? Or do you simply talk to that person and see the subtitles pop up as you go? The latter one is clearly superior, IMO. This is like a review of cellphones from the 80's, "Stuff like this will never be used by anyone else than really busy professionals. It doesn't even fit in your pocket!" EDIT: A lot of the time I really only need my smart phone for special purposes. Things like finding my way around places I haven't been is much easier with google maps than with a physical map and/or asking directions. Other than that? Well, surfing the web and listening to music, the former being a way to kill time and the latter something that my iPod Nano does better. Yet, smart phones are here to stay for most people.