Google Glass -- What do you think?

shrox said:

Google Glass will separate the Men from the Borg...

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Peartree said:

A heads up display (HUD) in combat, sure, I can see the utility. A guy, standing on a ladder and shoulders deep in the wing of an aircraft and needs to reference a repair manual, sure, a voice activated HUD would be cool. A deaf person using on-the-fly transcription of the conversation she is having with a hearing friend, way cool. Cameras in public places, fine. But in a private residence, not so much. I can see my sister-in-law start to point her camera and tell her "not today, not here, not now" but I might not notice that she's wearing a different pair of sunglasses than usual. Likewise at work, someone who thought they were having a "private" conversation with a coworker (or their boss) might not realize that there was an online audience. I can see more than a few ways that this could violate your privacy.

The next time you get laid off from a job, how would you like to discover that your "exit interview" has been posted on Youtube for your friends, neighbors and future employers to see?

And then there's copyright infringement. How many concerts or movies have you been to that posted warnings in the program, on signs in the lobby and in the opening announcements that "All photography, audio and video recording is strictly prohibited" (almost all of them)? It would be easy to miss somebody sitting in the movie theater wearing a pair of glasses and recording an entire new release.

Balancing the good and the bad will be a challenge.

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Micromeister said:

Ditto!!!!
Exactly Shrox, While we don't have any illusion of privicy out in public...It arks my No end listening to nerds on their Cells constantly. the endless texting...lack of attention and manors.

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Marc_G said:

Much of the discussion here misses the longer term point. For now, you could say "don't use those in my home" or whatever. But that assumes you notice the person is wearing them. What happens when it's not Google Glass but Google Contact. As in lenses. We aren't far away from that.

In less than a decade the current capabilities of the glasses will be possible with contact lenses and discrete adjunct support hardware the size of an ear ring.

We need to consider how the possibility of omnipresent "panopticon" technology will change our definition and expectation of privacy.

(Interesting read: Glasshouse, by Charles Stress)

In short we need to learn to deal with more information about us being collected all the time. It's how the info is used that concerns me... whether or not it will be collected is a ship already sailed...

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FastCargo said:

Exactly. GG is simply iteration one. You aren't going to be able to differentiate at iteration whatever. And are you going to interrogate everyone if they have wearable tech or not? Yeah, good luck with that.

You want to avoid being videoed or photoed in the future? Don't leave your house...ever.

FC

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Marc_G said:

Much of the discussion here misses the longer term point. For now, you could say "don't use those in my home" or whatever. But that assumes you notice the person is wearing them. What happens when it's not Google Glass but Google Contact. As in lenses. We aren't far away from that.

In less than a decade the current capabilities of the glasses will be possible with contact lenses and discrete adjunct support hardware the size of an ear ring.

We need to consider how the possibility of omnipresent "panopticon" technology will change our definition and expectation of privacy.

(Interesting read: Glasshouse, by Charles Stress)

In short we need to learn to deal with more information about us being collected all the time. It's how the info is used that concerns me... whether or not it will be collected is a ship already sailed...

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JPVegh said:

There are limits to the photolithography process and the continued reduction in size of microchips. The limits are quickly approaching and Moores Law is likely to hit the wall by the end of this decade. Beyond this a real break through in technology will need to be discovered for there to be continued progress. I suspect that such a break through would appear to be more akin to magic than technology, basically we're talking about Star Trek style replicator technology. Such an event will surley represent the end of the beginning or the beginning of the end.

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shrox said:

Or move to a like minded community. Like the Lost Coast.

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foamy said:

Big brother is at the door.

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o1d_dude said:

I read an interesting article on Yahoo (perhaps) about the intrusiveness of the newest GG apps.

How about an app that compares facial characteristics of the people being viewed by GG and returns their ID? "Walk and Stalk" apps for perverts? How about some guy wearing GG follows you into the restroom and uses the urinal right next to you?

There's an app for that.

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shrox said:

Or move to a like minded community. Like the Lost Coast.

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Marc_G said:

Much of the discussion here misses the longer term point. For now, you could say "don't use those in my home" or whatever. But that assumes you notice the person is wearing them. What happens when it's not Google Glass but Google Contact. As in lenses. We aren't far away from that.

In less than a decade the current capabilities of the glasses will be possible with contact lenses and discrete adjunct support hardware the size of an ear ring.

We need to consider how the possibility of omnipresent "panopticon" technology will change our definition and expectation of privacy.

(Interesting read: Glasshouse, by Charles Stress)

In short we need to learn to deal with more information about us being collected all the time. It's how the info is used that concerns me... whether or not it will be collected is a ship already sailed...

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Micromeister said:

Ditto!!!!
Exactly Shrox, While we don't have any illusion of privicy out in public...It arks my No end listening to nerds on their Cells constantly. the endless texting...lack of attention and manors.

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luke strawwalker said:

Manors as in castles or manners as in acceptable social behavior??

Just sayin'... OL JR

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