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Imagining a future dictated by Google Glass

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Re: Imagining a future dictated by Google Glass

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Post by Spearchucker »

hendrik-xdest wrote: post #7

Have a look at the new ShowCase TV series Continuum for some ideas on how an implanted Glass chip may enhance police work in the future.

Read Charles Stross' Rule 34 for an insightful vision of what technology like this might be like for a policeman to live with daily.

Not sure how much I'd like a world in which everything that's said or done is recorded. Where you have to turn the thing off to explore ideas for fear of being taken out of context in court. And where you have to explicitly prefix any grey area conversation with "off the record" to enjoy (questionable) privacy protection...

Re: Imagining a future dictated by Google Glass

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Post by repsilat »

braindead_in wrote: post #2

It's hilarious to imagine the effects of software glitches. Like getting the wrong suggestions for the date scenario. Or wrong instructions for a task.

There's already the common story of people trusting their car's navigation too much[1]. It will only get more common, though, and you're right that it'll be a hoot.

1: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/news/6197826/Driver-foll...

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Post by knowtheory »

jakeonthemove wrote: post #3

Heh, I suppose most people would use it this way. I believe we need to fully utilize our brain before switching to external help - maybe there's going to be an app for that?

Are you referring to the myth that we don't use all of our brain? http://www.snopes.com/science/stats/10percent.asp

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Post by waterlesscloud »

zvrba wrote: post #10

So what was the last scene about? Was he on a date with a real person or testing a robot prototype?

It's implying that he can take control of her (a real person) using some sort of back door built into the software of the Sight product. Presumably since he's a coder at the company that makes it.

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Post by dhughes »

zvrba wrote: post #10

So what was the last scene about? Was he on a date with a real person or testing a robot prototype?

She asked him when they were at dinner if the rumours were true that his company could manipulate people's minds, since he works for the company, but he said no that was crazy.

In the last scene he was outed as a gamer who was collecting badges by going on dates and treating them as part of a game just to level-up and collect badges.

When she, his date, jumps up in disgust you see him access her account/brain and hack her brain then says "Let's try this again" ... it was true!

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Post by alenox »

xyzzyb wrote: post #19

Why were his home displays publicly viewable? If anything her displays (twitter, messages, etc) should've been filling the blank spaces.

I thought that part was interesting. How did they sync up? She was on his home network so the default is his stream? This also implies that there is some kind of stream syncing problem. What if we are in a public place and we all watch slightly different streams? We all have separate experiences? Who gets the rights to different public streams? How many billboards are currently showing on this blank white canvas on the highway? How many virtual worlds are currently overlapping the real world and who has the rights to the default one?
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