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I think it's much more complex than that. Here was my first experience observing someone using Google Glass in the field, in a SF coffeehouse: >See attractive
by flomo 12y ago
I think it's much more complex than that. Here was my first experience observing someone using Google Glass in the field, in a SF coffeehouse:
>See attractive woman.
>See bespeckled gentleman apparently leering grotesquely at the attractive woman.
>Realize he has Google Glasses on. OK, he might just be checking the weather. Perhaps in order to use this, you have to stare off into space, with your mouth hanging open like the creepmaster.
>Second-guess whether he was really using the glasses or just filming the woman.
It isn't just that one knows there's a camera, it that using the thing mucks deeply with humans' instinctual reaction in reading people's eyes and faces. It's the ambiguity around the camera and the undermining of one's instinctual reactions to eye-contact. A shoecam is a shoecam. Something mounted near your eyeballs is entirely different.
There's also the aspect that may of us already spend 50-75% of our lives looking at screens. Most people know 'that guy' who can't go out for breakfast without checking his feeds between bites of huevos ranchero. IMO, "it make anti-social activities even easier" was never a very good sell (perhaps outside the googleplex.)
- TeMPOraL 12y ago>> Second-guess whether he was really using the glasses or just filming the woman. I can't help but ask: so what? I know I might be totally biased here as I never had an issue with being filmed, but such examples make me feel we're trying to blame technology for what is our society having trouble with its own sexuality. I accept this is an issue, though I personally don't "feel it". > There's also the aspect that may of us already spend 50-75% of our lives looking at screens. Most people know 'that guy' who can't go out for breakfast without checking his feeds between bites of huevos ranchero. IMO, "it make anti-social activities even easier" was never a very good sell (perhaps outside the googleplex.) Now this attitude, very common among people, is IMO unfair and feels like bullying. I am 'that guy'. And you know why I'm sticked to some screen for most of the day? Because brain-computer interfaces are not here yet. I'd be happy to use some different interface like, say, AR glasses but hey, aren't those being frowned upon because they have a camera? sigh.