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Not really unexpected, the writing was on the wall. It's a shame though, Glass hate is coming from the old school, technophobe camp. While it _is_ a clunky, un

Not really unexpected, the writing was on the wall. It's a shame though, Glass hate is coming from the old school, technophobe camp. While it _is_ a clunky, underdesigned, underpowered piece of tech, we should aim for sleeker, more powerful, more useful head-mounted computers… instead for no HMC at all.

vernie 12y ago
I think your assessment of Glass detractors is way off.
saosebastiao 12y ago
I'm not anywhere near technophobe but I definitely hate Google Glass. It has less to do with the technology than the type of person that gloms onto it and what it enables them to do. Examples: Talking loudly to oneself in a restaurant/bus, not watching where one is walking, elitist or showoff attitudes, lax attitude toward invasion of privacy, etc.
- waqf 12y ago
  Do you remember when we used to say the same about people with cellphones?
  - saosebastiao 12y ago
    We still do say the same about (some) people with cellphones. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/17/lakeysha-beard-kicked-off_n_863149.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/17/lakeysha-beard-kick... But many, if not most people have learned how to respect people around them while owning and using a cellphone.
  - _almosnow 12y ago
    >Talking loudly to oneself in a restaurant/bus, not watching where one is walking, elitist or showoff attitudes, lax attitude toward invasion of privacy, etc. Are you implying that doing these things with a cellphone is now alright?
    - njharman 12y ago
      No they're saying that we use to (unfairly) attribute poor social behavior to ALL cell phone users. Then we all got cellphones, found out they're neat, no longer felt "left out" or "inferior" and realized hey it's not the cellphone that make people obnoxious it's obnoxious people that make people obnoxious.
  - username223 12y ago
    I still think that people yammering away at their phones or bluetooth earpieces while in line to order a coffee (or, even worse, doing so while talking to the cashier) are rude and obnoxious. And that people sitting across a table from each other staring at their smartphones and texting are antisocial and a bit ridiculous. Basic human decency and social norms haven't changed as much as you think. Walking around talking to a computer strapped to your face, staring at a little screen in the corner of your eye, is profoundly anti-social.
0xDOOD 12y ago
Right. Because no intelligent, technically competent person has ever had a reasonable criticism to make about Glass, or the track record of the company making it, in regards to privacy and participation with NSA surveillance, or of the potential downsides to adding even more ubiquitous, fine-grained surveillance to the modern world. I mean, Glass is no more ominous than cellphones. It's just a cellphone strapped to your face and pointed right at everyone you're looking at. No one would be creeped out if you held your cellphone out in front of you and recorded everything going on. It even has a little light that shows when you're recording, which is controlled by perfectly trustworthy software. Bunch of Luddites, they all are.

vernie 12y ago

I think your assessment of Glass detractors is way off.

saosebastiao 12y ago

I'm not anywhere near technophobe but I definitely hate Google Glass. It has less to do with the technology than the type of person that gloms onto it and what it enables them to do. Examples: Talking loudly to oneself in a restaurant/bus, not watching where one is walking, elitist or showoff attitudes, lax attitude toward invasion of privacy, etc.

waqf 12y ago
Do you remember when we used to say the same about people with cellphones?
- saosebastiao 12y ago
  We still do say the same about (some) people with cellphones. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/17/lakeysha-beard-kicked-off_n_863149.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/17/lakeysha-beard-kick... But many, if not most people have learned how to respect people around them while owning and using a cellphone.
- _almosnow 12y ago
  >Talking loudly to oneself in a restaurant/bus, not watching where one is walking, elitist or showoff attitudes, lax attitude toward invasion of privacy, etc. Are you implying that doing these things with a cellphone is now alright?
  - njharman 12y ago
    No they're saying that we use to (unfairly) attribute poor social behavior to ALL cell phone users. Then we all got cellphones, found out they're neat, no longer felt "left out" or "inferior" and realized hey it's not the cellphone that make people obnoxious it's obnoxious people that make people obnoxious.
- username223 12y ago
  I still think that people yammering away at their phones or bluetooth earpieces while in line to order a coffee (or, even worse, doing so while talking to the cashier) are rude and obnoxious. And that people sitting across a table from each other staring at their smartphones and texting are antisocial and a bit ridiculous. Basic human decency and social norms haven't changed as much as you think. Walking around talking to a computer strapped to your face, staring at a little screen in the corner of your eye, is profoundly anti-social.

0xDOOD 12y ago

Right. Because no intelligent, technically competent person has ever had a reasonable criticism to make about Glass, or the track record of the company making it, in regards to privacy and participation with NSA surveillance, or of the potential downsides to adding even more ubiquitous, fine-grained surveillance to the modern world. I mean, Glass is no more ominous than cellphones. It's just a cellphone strapped to your face and pointed right at everyone you're looking at. No one would be creeped out if you held your cellphone out in front of you and recorded everything going on. It even has a little light that shows when you're recording, which is controlled by perfectly trustworthy software. Bunch of Luddites, they all are.