"The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do what you tell them to do." -- Ted Nelson
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"The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do what you tell them to do." -- Ted Nelson
Scott Halepaska wrote:Hmm, I try to keep my HUDs related to my hobbies:
http://labs.reconinstruments.com/
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J. Kevin Robbins wrote:I think most of us would be appalled to see how much data Google has on each of us.
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chris webster wrote:
J. Kevin Robbins wrote:I think most of us would be appalled to see how much data Google has on each of us.
Maybe we can Google it to find out?
chris webster wrote:
By the way, have you read You Are Not A Gadget. Maybe all Google Glasses should be required to initialise their displays with this book...
"The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do what you tell them to do." -- Ted Nelson
Steve
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chris webster wrote:I use a load of Google's "free" services in the knowledge that I am not a user but am being used,
But there's a big difference between choosing to send an email via GMail and having Google streaming your life (and those around you) via a surveillance device you've strapped to your own head. For example I wouldn't put my ATM code in an email, but Google Glasses is presumably going to be able to pick that up pretty easily every time a "user" goes to the ATM.
Steve
Steve Luke wrote: So I have no problem with all that - I don't see anything I do online as so private that I would be upset that some anonymous company knows that some anonymous (to them) person is doing it.
"The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do what you tell them to do." -- Ted Nelson
J. Kevin Robbins wrote:but I wonder how old you are? I ask because it seems the younger generation (<30) that has grown up with computers and cell phones for all their lives have a much different view of online privacy than the old farts like me (52). I know that my daughters and their friends have no concerns about posting their entire lives online and they can't even imagine living without Facebook and Twitter. I don't have and will never have a Twitter account and would drop my facebook account except I use it to keep in touch with family and a few friends. I'm rather paranoid about the digital tracks of my life, as you probably surmised.
Steve
Jesper de Jong wrote:Google needs to make a left eyed version, otherwise it will not be very useful to me.
Pat Farrell wrote:Creepy? Yeah, but mostly goofy.
Have you noticed that in all the photos of it, the person wearing Google Glass is beautiful, not just good looking, but drop dead gorgeous? This is clearly to distract us from the fact that the Glass is goofy looking. When you wear it, if you are not beautiful, you will look like a dork.
Steve
Steve Luke wrote:That's not the way it works. If you look like a dork and then you wear it, it will make you beautiful. That is the #1 selling point.
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Jayesh A Lalwani wrote:I don't understand the google glass hate. It's not taking pictures every 5 minutes until you tell it to....
Jayesh A Lalwani wrote:Here's an idea. Take it off.
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chris webster wrote:Or don't put it on in the first place.
chris webster wrote:Or don't put it on in the first place.
Pat Farrell wrote:The issue is not when you wear the creepy glasses, its when someone else, say in a bar or party or meeting, is wearing them.
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chris webster wrote:ban Google Glass from any meetings where Serious Stuff is under discussion!
In the anime series Ghost in the Shell: Standalone Complex* (in which a near-future society is heavily cyberized), there is a concept of Interceptors: micro-machine cameras implanted in peoples eyes. In the series, it takes a government warrant to make them legal to use (much like wire taps today).
Deepak Bala wrote:One of my favorite animes. From memory, the interceptors were misused and someone uncovers that and is eradicated.
Bear Bibeault wrote:the illegal use of interceptors is ....
"The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do what you tell them to do." -- Ted Nelson
Maneesh Godbole wrote:Lack of privacy might not the only thing we need to be worried about in future
Steve