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No, I don't.
Exactly my point.
By invalidating your point?
Google Glass is Ridiculous
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#112This needed to be said. The social implications of this device are indeed ridiculous. Most insightful: "Can you imagine having a conversation with someone that's wearing this thing? I'd feel like they aren't even paying attention." I already detest people wearing bluetooth headsets. They give off the wrong social cues, they were never really accepted as fashion, and other than government-mandated hands-free use in ca…
> insightful quote: "I can only imagine my morning commute on the bus, with 15 different people talking to the screen on their head just trying to check email." So, low-quality earbuds are the problem, here, right? I mean, you're talking about listening to other people talking softly on public transportation, and you say the conversation is the problem? Do you similarly hate people who use cellphones or talk with fri…
I hate people who talk on their cellphone on a bus, as well as people who yell with their friends too loudly on a bus.
Concerning your "snooping" point... it lowers the barrier to entry. Sure, people can always take a picture of you, but if they can do it in a discreet way, there's less incentive for them to have the common courtesy to ask.
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#113I'd say the set of responses in this thread are pretty expected. I think most miss the point.
His point is that the media are falling all over themselves to praise Google Glass and there is no journalistic skepticism whatsoever. Indeed, many in this thread have no issue with that because they like the technology.
The issues he raises with Glass are reasonable points for non-engineers. (Engineers put up with more than average people do.) The most pressing concern for most consumers will be, simply: "Do I feel stupid using this in public?" I feel stupid using Siri in public. If that were the main product it would have flopped. I feel stupid using my Bluetooth headset in public, and wouldn't own one if it weren't illegal to talk and drive without one. That's not to say that it doesn't have value, just that social pressure is a powerful force.
I do think the media will turn on Glass once it's released. There's nothing they like more than setting something up for a fall. I'm not saying anyone in the press consciously does this; it's just what happens when unmoderated enthusiasm meets reality.
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So his point is he is blaming the product for people not being attentive? That would mean the car is at fault for driving without due care and attention, and yet I'm supposed to buy that that is a valuable insight?
I think the point is that when someone has a private always-on HUD right in front of their eyes you can't necessarily tell how much attention they are paying to you. Are they look at me and smiling because they like me, or have they superimposed a cartoon on top of my face?
If anything Glass will make it really apparent which of your friends are douche buckets.
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Btw Voice is not the only way to control glass. I'm not sure if voice can be eliminated altogether but that should be easy enough. So the second problem is actually not a problem.
It could be just a display/HUD for your phone, sure. That might be more human for when you can't use your voice. But most of the interaction Google shows is via voice, so I'm not seeing it yet, and if it's an afterthought, then I'm guessing it won't be great.
You can control it via touch. This info is present in many reviews. Why are you dismissing something without even researching it?
As I said earlier I'm not sure how much can be controlled via touch but that is a not a big problem to solve. Google shows off voice interactions because it is more cool.
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#117People said the same thing about the huge, bulky cell phones that came out in the 1980s. Who would want to carry around a phone with them all the time? And one that large? It'll never catch on! Some folks said the same thing about the iPad. Who needs a tablet when I've got a laptop and a smartphone? What strikes me is that this person is lambasting a product that he hasn't tried first hand. He hasn't lived with it fo…
People also said that the Segway was going to revolutionize the world.
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#118See, I thought this recent demonstration of Google Glass was of a prototype. I heard it was going to be fully refined and released by the end of 2013. There's a lot of work left to do in my opinion to make it sexier and more usable. Will they ever manage it?
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Actually, what I want is everything logged that I could have seen or heard, had I been paying attention. I want to be trying to remember what someone said to me while I was distracted by a road sign, and be able to pull up audio or video of that moment by reference to the distracting sign ("triangular blue sign") by doing a video search via voice input. I want to have every moment of every day in my life available vi…
* Most of your life is not fun * The good times are real easy to remember * Your loved ones don't want every piece of your daily minutiae, really, they don't * Pointless debates are some of the most hilarious conversations you can have * Technology will get better * You never forget the best times, the rest is unimportant
> Most of your life is not fun
> Your loved ones don't want every piece of your daily minutiae, really, they don't
I'm not sure what to say to this. Try to have more fun? :)
> Technology will get better
I'm counting on it! But Glass is not the final attempt to do this -- it's one of the first attempts. Within ten years, absent political dystopia, there will be no way to tell if the person you're having a conversation with is lifelogging.
> You never forget the best times, the rest is unimportant
Empirically untrue, sadly. From reminiscing with friends, it's clear that both they and I have forgotten some of the best times, since I remember some of the best times and have forgotten others, and vice versa. I can remember that I had quite a bit of fun during the late eighties, but the vast majority of the detail is gone. When I've written down decade-old memories and looked at them a decade after that, it really, really often happens that I'm disturbed at how differently I remembered that event when I was halfway closer to it than now. Human memory is so sketchy and malleable that it's just barely useful at all. :(
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#120I'd say the set of responses in this thread are pretty expected. I think most miss the point. His point is that the media are falling all over themselves to praise Google Glass and there is no journalistic skepticism whatsoever. Indeed, many in this thread have no issue with that because they like the technology. The issues he raises with Glass are reasonable points for non-engineers . (Engineers put up with more tha…
Tech media being positive on Glass is because they are techies. That is a valid point. But it is not what the author says.
"They are competing to see who can do the most over-the-top, overwhelmingly positive review, in hopes of making people at Google happy"