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Re: Google Glass

#391

"tell us what you would do if you had Glass" - uh oh, this is exactly how Google Wave started. They are asking because it is a cool tool and they don't know how people will get real value yet.

This isn't really comparable. Clearly there are hundreds of uses for a always-available video or photo recorder.

Re: Google Glass

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Spot on. This sort of technology is actually doing a fuck ton of damage to society. It's why I have a shit Nokia.

Phew, good thing you have a shit Nokia. Otherwise society would probably come to a grinding halt.

You are correct. It probably would, from my perspective. I actually talk to people, properly, deeply.

My memes are not limited to 140 characters...

Re: Google Glass

#393
Here's one quirky thing though, there are moments in life where everyone around you wants to take a picture. Like, a celebrity walks by. Or you are at the top of a long climb. Or you're at the zoo. Are people in these situations going to be just a sea of voices saying in round "OK Glass take a picture, OK Glass take a picture"?

Re: Google Glass

#394

Ok. So 100% voice-based. That makes sense. That's great. Except if you don't speak English as your primary language. I've tried Google's voice-recognition on my native language and the results have been closer to sad than lulz-worthy. Yes, I know English. Yes, I can both write and speak it fairly well. That's not the point: You won't believe how awkward a context-switch from "I'm talking to people" to "I'm talking to…

Not too mention all the trouble when you live you life in two different languages... somehow, none of all language aware things are very practical when you communicate sometime in english, sometime not.

Re: Google Glass

#395

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After people start wearing them around everywhere they'll become a lot cooler. Fashion now != Fashion later.

One might say they are already cool because of the price tag and scarcity. Remember that $1000 jewel iPhone app?

That was never cool.

Re: Google Glass

#396

I am seriously concerned about this. I was in a long-distance relationship this summer. We would take turns visiting each other in our respective cities roughly 5 hours apart. It was a pretty long journey for a weekend - it would sometimes take 10 hours one way since you had to go through New York. Of course, it was worth it. But whenever we would go on a walk, or I'd take her out to dinner, I got as much face time w…

Probably more a flaw in the relationship. She was probably bored. Sorry to break it to you. Not being an asshole, but your young, and I'd hate to see you get in the habit of blaming random things instead of owning up to the situations you find yourself in.

Re: Google Glass

#397

I am seriously concerned about this. I was in a long-distance relationship this summer. We would take turns visiting each other in our respective cities roughly 5 hours apart. It was a pretty long journey for a weekend - it would sometimes take 10 hours one way since you had to go through New York. Of course, it was worth it. But whenever we would go on a walk, or I'd take her out to dinner, I got as much face time w…

Probably more a flaw in the relationship. She was probably bored. Sorry to break it to you. Not being an asshole, but you're young, and I'd hate to see you get in the habit of blaming random things instead of owning up to the situations you find yourself in.

Re: Google Glass

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I am seriously concerned about this. I was in a long-distance relationship this summer. We would take turns visiting each other in our respective cities roughly 5 hours apart. It was a pretty long journey for a weekend - it would sometimes take 10 hours one way since you had to go through New York. Of course, it was worth it. But whenever we would go on a walk, or I'd take her out to dinner, I got as much face time w…

Downvoted - this is not HN material. Please go back to Reddit.

What the hell? Seriously. This was not a silly one line meme reminiscent of reddit. Someone posted a long, well written story questioning the social implications of a new piece of technology, which generated a huge amount of discussion.

A one liner saying go back to reddit is not HN material. Please go back to reddit.

Re: Google Glass

#399

I am seriously concerned about this. I was in a long-distance relationship this summer. We would take turns visiting each other in our respective cities roughly 5 hours apart. It was a pretty long journey for a weekend - it would sometimes take 10 hours one way since you had to go through New York. Of course, it was worth it. But whenever we would go on a walk, or I'd take her out to dinner, I got as much face time w…

Wouldn't the Google glasses allow her to spend more time looking around and at you instead of toward a phone?

That's speaks the distinction between just hearing someone and actually listening to them.

Re: Google Glass

#400

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If that is true and it catches on, then it is terrifying.

Dude I don't care what you think, but Google is the greatest technology organization ever existed. The "How It Feels" video literally made me in tears because the vision is so great, so compelling. The way we interact will change fundamentally, but that isn't a bad thing. People are always terrified by progress because progress means difference, and people feel comfort in falling back to the same thing. But, again, I…

When I first read Isaac Asimov's "The Naked Sun" as a kid in the early '90s I was thinking "hey, this is really only science fiction, we will never be like that". With the passing of years it seems that we get closer and closer to what I was actually thinking was only fiction. This is the story: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Naked_Sun#Plot_introductio...

> The planet has a rigidly controlled population of twenty thousand, and robots outnumber humans ten thousand to one. People are strictly taught from birth to despise personal contact. They live on huge estates, either alone or with their spouse only. Communication is done via holographic telepresence (called viewing, as opposed to in-person seeing). It is likely that the society is based on that in E. M. Forster's 1909 short story "The Machine Stops".

Of course, the irony is that I had forgotten the exact name of the story and I had to use Google and a very fuzzy search to find it. And Google actually found it.

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