Well it's certainly a great piece of marketing. Microsoft also did a film about glass recently; they ended up painting a sterile dystopian nightmare. |
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Google Gets Transparent With Glass, Its Augmented Reality Project | Epicenter | Wired.com |
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Well it's certainly a great piece of marketing. Microsoft also did a film about glass recently; they ended up painting a sterile dystopian nightmare. |
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This is true. We're becoming increasingly insane. |
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Eh, seems like it would be a pain in the glass to control. |
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Lost count of how many lucid dreams I've had
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I posted something like this in lounge. I don't really see a problem with this except that it would obviously be a distraction while driving like any other phone. |
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soooo, that shit is in your glasses? |
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Its humans that are flawed. People will always figure out how to make cool stuff and its up to people to use them responsibly. I think this could be so awesome, especially combined with good enough technology to read our thoughts to understand basic commands. Walking around town talking to our selves instead of other people wouldn't do anything good for our sanity. Although neither would never having to talk with our mouths either. |
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I don't see how people can say that is anything but badass. That is just cool and awesome, and is all positives as far as I am concerned. |
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So everyone walks around talking to themselves? This would annoy the shit out of me, I already hate people talking on their bluetooth headsets because I can never tell if they are talking to me or not. This just takes it to a whole new level. Sure, the concept is cool for convenience, but this is just proof that people are getting lazier and lazier and becoming more reliant on technology to do everything for them. |
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Imagine a train full of corporate businessmen/women wearing this gadget. Mass confusion. lol. If everyone had their phone up to their ear continuously, it would similarly amuse me - but we don't, the phone mostly stays in our pocket. And that's the problem with this, it seems to become a part of your general wear; once it's on, it looks like you keep it on. |
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*points to signature quote |
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They are not being lazier they are being smarter. So much time per day is wasted doing pointless stuff, so if you can do things faster and easier, it just makes sense. |
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Is it really laziness? Maybe you just need your hands free whilst you talk? If it's an option between having to hold your hand to your ear and not having to hold your hand to your ear, the latter is kind of an obvious win. I don't see how raising your arm slightly counts as 'not lazy'; if you use a phone at all, you have already made the major decision to be lazy; you're not physically travelling to meet the person. The only use of putting your hand to your ear is as a social signal, but it should be pretty easy to implement some kind of signal on the device that tells other people if you're using it. |
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Well I'm talking more about specific things that it shows the guy using the product for. Example: walking into a bookstore and taking a moment to look up and read the signs about where a section is, or, god forbid, actually going to the information booth and asking where the book is, or any other means of figuring out, for yourself, where the book section you want is (if people don't learn to figure this stuff out on their own they are going to be lost little babies when their devices malfunction)...but with the device he just walks into the store and announces to the world what book he's looking for and it magically shows up in front of him riding a carriage of fat little floating elves with a latte...ok, not really...but, I just feel like there's something lazier about the way he is doing things. More convenient, maybe, more efficient, maybe, but lazier...in that, people need to learn to function, figure out, and find things on their own, without such a device, otherwise, what happens when it's gone? I'm talking about, for the generations to come who are raised on things such as this and become completely dependent on them. Also, brain cancer. |
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The two things that scare me about it the most are people using it while driving, but they'll probably make it illegal too. |
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So do you do all your math by hand then? And people doing advanced math and working on building airplanes and stuff should do all their math by hand? No, of course not! People use calculators all the time. |
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Alric, you're so defensive about it that you're not even paying attention to what is being said. If someone is *raised* using devices like this...then how are they going to learn these things that you say everyone already knows how to do because they learn them growing up, that makes zero sense. If a child is raised to have everything done and every question answered for them, then that child is not really learning how to be "self sufficient" are they? I envision some day in the future when, for whatever reason, their devices get switched off, everyone just stands around looking at each other, like..."uhh, what I do now?" It's really a question of how safe it will be for all of society to become so reliant on technology, that they do not know how to function without it. |
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You know, it's gotten so bad that my boyfriend's teenage daughter won't even google answers to some of her homework questions because "it takes to long to go through read and all the results". I would have KILLED to have something like google when I was doing homework as a kid. I don't help her find it, I make her google it at least. Like yesterday, she was like "how do you draw the circulatory system of a dog?" |
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Last edited by Xei; 04-05-2012 at 10:30 PM.
I think it is a little early to be worrying about little children walking around with glasses like that. Besides, wouldn't that be more of an issue of parents buying stuff like that for little children and not really an issue with the technology itself? I mean the vast majority of people 12-100 years old can probably figure out how to ask for directions. |
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