I recently encountered a few Glassholes in my environment, and let me tell you - the fervor with which these guys defended their right to use their Google Glass

I recently encountered a few Glassholes in my environment, and let me tell you - the fervor with which these guys defended their right to use their Google Glass device to intrude upon my life is, frankly, terrifying. This generation may not think its rude to intrude - but what will the next generation think is acceptable? When this technology becomes ubiquitous and available to teens, I fear for the world. Too much lawn-guarding for this old codger? Perhaps .. but I have to say that the idea of having people doing Google's work for them all the while having 'convenient' features marketed to them is heinous. But I realize I'm generalizing without content, so with that off my chest, let me explain what I think is so wrong about the Google Glass religious experience: what is the real issue I have with this? Its simply this: Google Glass gets in the way of two human beings, for the sake of providing one human being some 'convenience', and a corporation with Yet More Data To Rule The World with .. As soon as you've got that thing on, and you're pointing it at someone, you have put a physical barrier between your eyes, and theirs. Your mind, and theirs, is no longer connected in a human fashion - the Glassholes' mind is connected to Google, first and foremost. So whenever I have the misfortune to be dealing with a Glasshole, I know that I'm not actually talking to the person, themselves, as a unit - but rather someone who has willingly usurped their own individual free will, and is renting it out to Google for the price of 'having cool technology'. In all honesty, todays Google Glass toter is yesterdays' E-meter "free stress-test" booth dweller. Both classes of individual are proving they'd rather play with toys than deal with people.