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Re: The Glass Bicycle

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Post by randallsquared »

cscurmudgeon wrote: post #37

Maybe I am an idiot for not understanding this sentiment expressed below: "Google glass will make everyone smarter" Is it in the same way that a car makes an obese un-athletic person faster?

Yes, as we all know, only obese, non-athletic people can be made faster by cars. Sigh.

Seriously, though, I know that my effective memory is thousands or millions of percent better than it would be without search and the internet. Google Glass just makes this faster and easier, and makes my life that much better remembered.

Re: The Glass Bicycle

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Post by edu »

skeletonjelly wrote: post #91
cwilson wrote: post #8

I wish Google would focus on using Google Glass within the workplace before trying to take it to the streets for casual use. I can imagine using them within the office, because anything that makes me more productive is totally acceptable "socially". Outside of the office however I have serious doubts to if I'd wear these around daily. My colleague will know why I'm essentially talking to myself to use Google Glass, w…

What has started in the workplace and ended up a common item though? I feel like something that starts off in the workplace immediately loses it's "cool", which is needed for rapid uptake

Computers? Cell phones?

Re: The Glass Bicycle

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Post by ficho »

The true genius and revolution of Glass is the interaction system. It's the first large scale, consumer product which will really provide a much faster interface with our phones / computers. We have small computers that can do anything in our pockets, but the bottleneck for the past years has been passing commands onto it, typing them, taking it out etc.

Glass will provide a much more embedded experience, where you have constant access, where you never have to ask yourself is it worth taking my phone out of my pocket etc.

The scary part is what that will do to our memory, we'll slowly move towards a shared memory that sits on the net. When every question's answer is a ms away, will we still use our own memory? Maybe we'll use it as RAM :)

Anyway I'm very excited, I'm sure the interactions and seeing people with glass will be fairly odd, but the intrusive part of it will be resolved in time.

Re: The Glass Bicycle

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Post by gwern »

pavel_lishin wrote: post #16
morsch wrote: post #5

It only solves one side of man machine interaction: the machine-to-man part. For many interactions, its solution for man-to-machine is voice, which is anything but unobtrusive in public.

Some of my favorite fictional technology is subvocal speech recognition. (For examples, see the motes in A Deepness in the Sky, and Jane's interface with Ender in the Speaker for the Dead series.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subvocal_recognition

Re: The Glass Bicycle

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Post by [deleted] »

untog wrote: post #55
blhack wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, it isn't, it's just the first time that you're hearing about it because it's the first time that the tech has been pointed at your particular subset of consumer.

Alright, what other consumer products like Google Glass have been released?

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Re: The Glass Bicycle

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Post by PeterisP »

jonandreas wrote: post #39
PeterisP wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you value privacy, you don't want me looking at your private stuff. Don't show it to me or ask me to leave. But if you allow me to look at you, then I can remember what I see. I am allowed to remember everything that I see and hear, every single last detail, forever, and without requesting permission from anyone. If I have trouble remembering, I may write it down or draw pictures of what I saw and heard, and also…

But a recording allows you to share what I have shown you (perhaps assuming it would remain a private matter) with the world. A video recording has a higher truth value than oral reproduction.

It does have a reputation of being a bit more trustworthy as it's (temporarily) harder to fake - but it is orthogonal to privacy. I would be able to disclose your secrets from memory, despite your assumptions.

In this sense Glass simply replicates a rather unusually good memory - and it may be obtained in natural ways; for example, some people really have absolutely 'photographic' memory due to a genetic or birth 'defect'.

And it is possible (likely?) that I might in future obtain such unusually good memory as well - through brain-improving drugs, genetic engineering or implants that augment my brain . Or, in a rather limited way, through Google Glass.

What I'm aiming at is that by banning such recordings in essence you would be banning people having a better / more accurate memory. And I see that as a Bad Thing - globally speaking, I'd like to see that people have a chance to improve beyond current body limitations. All of them.

Making a law that states "your memory must be fallible, imperfect and degrade with time, since that's how it's Always Been Done Here" seems, well, evil.

Re: The Glass Bicycle

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Post by nooneelse »

morsch wrote: post #5

It only solves one side of man machine interaction: the machine-to-man part. For many interactions, its solution for man-to-machine is voice, which is anything but unobtrusive in public.

I think the wearable tinkering community has plenty of ideas for input devices to draw from. Such as this little one-handed keyboard: http://chordite.com/ . A touch panel (doing the same job as the one on the side of Glass, so you could operate Glass without reaching up to the side of your head) could be located pretty much anywhere and blend in quite well, on a belt or watch or some such. Someone else mentioned Myo (https://getmyo.com/ ); that would be nice too.

As long as the interface makes the number of choices available at each "page" of the interface pretty low, then input devices get small and easy to hide.

Re: The Glass Bicycle

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Post by GhotiFish »

I am a very cynical man. The current phones are toys, not tools, and I see no reason for google glass to be any different. Toy's make more money than tools.

Re: The Glass Bicycle

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Post by balakk »

morsch wrote: post #5

It only solves one side of man machine interaction: the machine-to-man part. For many interactions, its solution for man-to-machine is voice, which is anything but unobtrusive in public.

There's a new type of microphone-attachment for non-audible murmur recognition.

http://library.naist.jp/dspace/bitstream/10061/7966/1/EUROSP...

Another gadget to wear, but better design and miniaturization can help.

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