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Re: Imagining a future dictated by Google Glass

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Post by digitalsushi » Mon, Jul 30, 2012, 2:30 PM UTC

So for the past five years, it's been pretty common to hang out with friends that moved across country to catch up and all just talk about the same crud we saw online.

If we extend this trend, then perhaps I won't feel a need to catch up with friends since we're just consuming the same data feed all the time. It certainly hasn't made my friends more interesting, and I am sure I am just as boring to them.

Whether this is a problem is a much more interesting conversation. I'd like to have a coffee with someone over this.

Re: Imagining a future dictated by Google Glass

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Jul 30, 2012, 2:42 PM UTC

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.

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Re: Imagining a future dictated by Google Glass

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Post by jiggy2011 » Mon, Jul 30, 2012, 2:43 PM UTC

jmcejuela wrote: post #18

Nobody comments here on the profile way to get to know people. "Are you vegetarian? You didn't write that in your profile..." I guess we are already so used to this kind of virtual interaction. last.fm compatibility - 88% foursquare - 74% you both LIKE this and this...

I actually think in this context "writing on your profile" is actually outdated. More likely when you sign up for a dating profile it cross references your online shopping accounts and gives you a suggested profile automatically that will be partly based on the amount of meat your purchased etc.

Re: Imagining a future dictated by Google Glass

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Post by personlurking » Mon, Jul 30, 2012, 2:44 PM UTC

waterlesscloud wrote: post #15

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.

Groundhog Day. As many tries as you want.

Re: Imagining a future dictated by Google Glass

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Post by sequoia » Mon, Jul 30, 2012, 3:12 PM UTC

I especially liked how she characterized the experience of the Sight system crashing while she was running with the assistance of a running/exercise application: 'Sight crashed, I didn't see anything. I couldn't find my way home. I didn't see anything!'

Good illustration of cyborgism: her tech-augmented vision is so tightly integrated into her life that she "can't see" without it.

Re: Imagining a future dictated by Google Glass

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Post by samstave » Mon, Jul 30, 2012, 3:37 PM UTC

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.

That's how you share what art and style you have and like. Sight knew she was in his house and this displayed his interiors for her to see.

Re: Imagining a future dictated by Google Glass

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Post by xyzzyb » Mon, Jul 30, 2012, 3:46 PM UTC

samstave wrote: post #26

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.

That's how you share what art and style you have and like. Sight knew she was in his house and this displayed his interiors for her to see.

Public vs private interiors.

Re: Imagining a future dictated by Google Glass

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Post by bsenftner » Mon, Jul 30, 2012, 4:25 PM UTC

chipsy wrote: post #5

This vision of the future seems surprisingly lonely. Aren't we becoming a hivemind? Wouldn't it become more likely, rather than less, that manipulative types get caught and have their career and reputation instantly destroyed? Wouldn't status depend on which communities you're part of, not what products you consume?

The products one consumes is the most visible, and easily acquired information about a person. Plus, the product marketers will be pushing product-as-status over community-as-status as hard as they can!

Re: Imagining a future dictated by Google Glass

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Post by zacharypinter » Mon, Jul 30, 2012, 4:30 PM UTC

repsilat wrote: post #12

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...

Not as dramatic, but I've fallen victim to that before. I was driving back late one night from Boulder to Denver and wanted to get to an address on Market St. I was tired, not very familiar with the area, and didn't realize at the time that Google Maps had chosen the address on Market St in San Francisco. It didn't click for me until I had gone a little ways into the mountains and reception on my phone cut out. Sigh...

Re: Imagining a future dictated by Google Glass

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Post by drucken » Mon, Jul 30, 2012, 4:52 PM UTC

JonnieCache wrote: post #6

Charlie Brooker already did this, as a lavishly produced 45 minute one off drama. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Mirror_(TV_series) (Episode 3 is the relevant one, though you should watch all of them.)

Yup, a true eye-opening short series!

However, the emphasis in Black Mirror is more on an "augmented sensing from birth" perspective and the many implications if yourself, authorities and others have access to this archive.

On the other hand, this excellent Sight video is covering the "gamification" of life.

Either way, both cover faily dystopic visions of the future not readily found in the mainstream.