I think it is awesome that we are to a point in which we can simplify all of this into a pair of glasses. I think it is a step in the right direction of compacting today's technology. This is just testing the waters for great things to come. If we can put all of this into some glasses, think of what we can do in the future.
But this is what puzzles me. We came from caves and used sticks and so and so and then we discover these items that suddenly just make things work. How the hell did a guy make a T.V out of stuff in his attic? How did we make phones? Wi-Fi? It certainly is an exciting prospect, to show that we are capable of such, but we may be going for smartphones and these glasses and be stuck with 'em for years, let centuries pass by and then discoveer someting else. Complicated much? ^.^
Google glasses are a terrible threat to what little privacy we have left in this world. The ability to take photos and videos without anyone realizing is actually sort of frightening.
Discreet cameras are not as mainstream as google is hoping this will be. It is also quite obvious when someone is trying to take a picture with a phone most of the time, especially recording a video. Since you can do other things with the glasses it is not as noticeable.Google glasses are a terrible threat to what little privacy we have left in this world. The ability to take photos and videos without anyone realizing is actually sort of frightening.
That's not true at all.
Google Glass, at the moment atleast, might well be more obvious than someone holding a small digital camera, as well as much more expensive.
Tiny 'Spy' (Using that word lightly, but I guess it helps convey the meaning) cameras have been commercially available for a while now, just search Google Shop or whatever for 'Tiny Camera'.
If someone really wants to take pictures without someone realising, they throw down £30 on a small camera, into their pocket, snap snap snap.
Even more widely available, if I'm sitting opposite someone on the Tube (Not sure if you Americans have something quite like these) (http://2012olympicsnews.net/wp-content/plugins/rss-poster/cache/7ee13__61832736_tube_getty.jpg)... well, doesn't that picture speak for itself? I pull out my smartphone (Where cameras are being hyped to the point of stupidity), point it, and just take the picture. For all they know, I've just clicked on a link.
At the end of the day, I can't see personal privacy getting too much more invasive than it already is, without some sort of government effort. We already have discreet cameras, it's just people, at the end of the day, don't want to take a picture of some random person (in most cases).
If you hear somebody say,
"Ok glass, take a picture"
then you know to look at that person, and if they are looking straight at you then you can walk up to them and ask them why they just took a picture of you.
Same thing my brother saidIf you hear somebody say,
"Ok glass, take a picture"
then you know to look at that person, and if they are looking straight at you then you can walk up to them and ask them why they just took a picture of you.
Sorry to break it to you, but the Google Glass has already been jail broken. Which will MOST LIKELY lead to a way to take pictures without saying "Ok glass, take a picture."
They may still have to say a phrase, but it could be something more discreet. Maybe "That is interesting" or they could even change it to something you wouldn't suspect at all, such as "Ok glass, what is the weather going to be like?"
I like the concept of Google Glass, don't get me wrong, i'm probably going to get one as soon as I can afford it.
But I don't think our society is ready for this kind of technology.
I reckon, we're going in the wrong direction... See now if everything is so simplified, we, as humans will have our brain slowly shutting down since we don't use that part of that brain anymore, we get someone/something to do it and our muscles will become weaker, we won't be doing anything but sitting on a couch, or at your desk and playing opticraft. See, if the furture we like I-Robot with out the robot stuff happening, just everyone happy and normal, that'd be a good future, cars which go at 300mph or roughly/rounded 500km per hour. But people don't get robots to do everything, they do it themselves, and walk to work for the last 500metres or so.I would never got a robot assistant. They could malfunction and do other strange things :)
that doesn't probably make any sense, but ehh :)
Google glasses are a terrible threat to what little privacy we have left in this world. The ability to take photos and videos without anyone realizing is actually sort of frightening.
If you hear somebody say,
"Ok glass, take a picture"
then you know to look at that person, and if they are looking straight at you then you can walk up to them and ask them why they just took a picture of you.
Sorry to break it to you, but the Google Glass has already been jail broken. Which will MOST LIKELY lead to a way to take pictures without saying "Ok glass, take a picture."
They may still have to say a phrase, but it could be something more discreet. Maybe "That is interesting" or they could even change it to something you wouldn't suspect at all, such as "Ok glass, what is the weather going to be like?"
I like the concept of Google Glass, don't get me wrong, i'm probably going to get one as soon as I can afford it.
But I don't think our society is ready for this kind of technology.
I seem to be the only one who wants robotic assistants, or in-eye computer screens, or anything else like that.I want them too, don't get me wrong. I just see them getting abused, or used the wrong way :P
At the end of the day, if someone takes a picture of me..? So what, they have a picture, I'm not exactly too worried.
Every time something new is invented, there is a downside somewhere or other, but at the end of the day, the positive benefits far outweigh the negatives.
I seem to be the only one who wants robotic assistants, or in-eye computer screens, or anything else like that.Stalkers? CIA Agents secretly against you? What are the odds, but like Nick said, stress relieving technology will just make us just lazier, and can sometimes be overly abused. People just won't be the same.
At the end of the day, if someone takes a picture of me..? So what, they have a picture, I'm not exactly too worried.
Every time something new is invented, there is a downside somewhere or other, but at the end of the day, the positive benefits far outweigh the negatives.
Ladies and gentlemen: hit the gym.Exactly! I agree!
This is how Wall-E starts. Don't be like them.
/beginrant
On a more serious tone, I'm gonna miss the good times. Today, society is filled with brats who complain that they can't do the shit they wanna do because their iPhone sucks. And they hate their life because their parents are "assholes" and they live in mansions. Honestly, those AT&T commercials PERFECTLY mimick what I am talking about. You couldnt record more than two shows back then? Bitch please, you were lucky if you could put your VHS tape in time to record your show. If you missed it, tough luck. I creates a lazy society and will eventually create less workers and more programmers. We will be absolutely and COMPLETELY dependent on technology. And as soon as something starts to cut off our technology: global crisis.
/endrant
+2Ladies and gentlemen: hit the gym.Exactly! I agree!
This is how Wall-E starts. Don't be like them.
/beginrant
On a more serious tone, I'm gonna miss the good times. Today, society is filled with brats who complain that they can't do the shit they wanna do because their iPhone sucks. And they hate their life because their parents are "assholes" and they live in mansions. Honestly, those AT&T commercials PERFECTLY mimick what I am talking about. You couldnt record more than two shows back then? Bitch please, you were lucky if you could put your VHS tape in time to record your show. If you missed it, tough luck. I creates a lazy society and will eventually create less workers and more programmers. We will be absolutely and COMPLETELY dependent on technology. And as soon as something starts to cut off our technology: global crisis.
/endrant