Topic: Google Glass or "say cheese"

[charlesoakwood]

Wiki:
Google Glass is a wearable computer with a head-mounted display (HMD)---
CNET  Editors' Take -
It seems we're getting closer to seeing a Google-powered cyborg army wandering the streets shouting voice commands at themselves.  (Includes three example videos.)
Google - Robert Schoble,My two-week review of Google Glass:
This week I gave five speeches while wearing it.
I passed through airports four times (two more in a couple of hours).
I let hundreds of people try my Google Glass.
I have barely taken it off since getting it other than to sleep.

Here's my review after having Google Glass for two weeks: Link

This will be a bigger game changer than they are talking about.  One article hinted at business meetings, eventually, you will be able to record the whole meeting and analyze it.  Actually, one will be able to record any event and analyze it.  First to mind was a topic here about recording encounters with politicians, townhall meetings and unelected "officials".   This will change how people interact, totally.  For "privacy" it will become necessary to be naked in a "safe room",  a brave new world it is.

[Pandora]

Brave New World, Edition ..... ?  (How many is it now?)

Cameras and other recording devices everywhere, seen and unseen, and now glasses.

[trapeze]

Who would have thought that wearing (unnecessary) glasses would be fashionable? Privacy issues aside, I wonder what would happen if they could give you complete and total computer to brain interface with a propeller hat? Or a surgically implanted antenna?

Ref: Emperor's New Clothes

Science fiction references:

"True Names" by Vernor Vinge written in 1981.

More from Vinge's 1993 essay, "The Coming Technological Singularity":

_What is The Singularity?_

              The acceleration of technological progress has been the central
         feature of this century. I argue in this paper that we are on the edge
         of change comparable to the rise of human life on Earth. The precise
         cause of this change is the imminent creation by technology of
         entities with greater than human intelligence. There are several means
         by which science may achieve this breakthrough (and this is another
         reason for having confidence that the event will occur):
            o The development of computers that are "awake" and
              superhumanly intelligent. (To date, most controversy in the
              area of AI relates to whether we can create human equivalence
              in a machine. But if the answer is "yes, we can", then there
              is little doubt that beings more intelligent can be constructed
              shortly thereafter.
            o Large computer networks (and their associated users) may "wake
              up" as a superhumanly intelligent entity.
            o Computer/human interfaces may become so intimate that users
              may reasonably be considered superhumanly intelligent.
            o Biological science may find ways to improve upon the natural
              human intellect.

              The first three possibilities depend in large part on
         improvements in computer hardware. Progress in computer hardware has
         followed an amazingly steady curve in the last few decades [16]. Based
         largely on this trend, I believe that the creation of greater than
         human intelligence will occur during the next thirty years.  (Charles
         Platt [19] has pointed out the AI enthusiasts have been making claims
         like this for the last thirty years. Just so I'm not guilty of a
         relative-time ambiguity, let me more specific: I'll be surprised if
         this event occurs before 2005 or after 2030.)

Yet even more on the Technological Singularity.

[warpmine]

Wiki:
Google Glass is a wearable computer with a head-mounted display (HMD)---
CNET  Editors' Take -
It seems we're getting closer to seeing a Google-powered cyborg army wandering the streets shouting voice commands at themselves.  (Includes three example videos.)
Google - Robert Schoble,My two-week review of Google Glass:
This week I gave five speeches while wearing it.
I passed through airports four times (two more in a couple of hours).
I let hundreds of people try my Google Glass.
I have barely taken it off since getting it other than to sleep.

Here's my review after having Google Glass for two weeks: Link

This will be a bigger game changer than they are talking about.  One article hinted at business meetings, eventually, you will be able to record the whole meeting and analyze it.  Actually, one will be able to record any event and analyze it.  First to mind was a topic here about recording encounters with politicians, townhall meetings and unelected "officials".   This will change how people interact, totally.  For "privacy" it will become necessary to be naked in a "safe room",  a brave new world it is.

Should be good for the occasional trip to the strip club

[Libertas]

nekkad but for the glasses...

 

[ToddF]

If roads full of cell phone using morons wasn't bad enough...