[nyc]

File under SWPL.

Highlights include buying tickets to Monsieur Gayno, meeting up with a fellow herb to "check out that new place", and playing a ukulele for a girl in front of the setting sun.

[speakeasy]

If this is the future we're headed to, I think I'm moving to the bush of Africa.

[kosko]

What crap.

[R Smoov]

Little does Google know that these "innovative glasses" look like Dragonball Z scouters.

No one wants to look like Vegeta Google!

[TheMan]

"Over 9000!!!"

[haywire]

I think ya'll hatin' the product because of the metro-beta-male.

[WesternCancer]

Well considering its targeted to SWPL women I'd say it'll be a hit.

[Blunt]

I wonder if technologies like this actually serve to make humans dumber.

Driving/walking without GPS requires you to make a lot of spatial calculations, use your natural sense of direction, make landmarks for yourself, remember street signs, or if worse comes to worst ask someone for help (I have never done this). You get a tiny feeling of accomplishment when you arrive at your destination without the help of a gadget.

With this device, the world becomes more of a safe, sterile place. Remember what the world was like before cell phones? Where you had to just show up to a place on time and hope that your friend didn't get caught up in something? Now most people would feel somewhat lost without their phone. For me, I don't really mess around with the smartphone features that much, but if I'm in a foreign city you better believe that I'm going to have a local SIM and a contact to reach in case some shit goes down.

How are people going to react when their glasses are broken or stolen? I think gradually they are going to be using the glasses for more and more functions of their lives and become more reliant on them.

All these little things that Glass will do for you is just taking away functions that your brain would normally handle for itself. From personal experience I can tell that my brain takes a little bit of time to warm up if I've just been partying or taking it easy, and then I attempt an intellectually intense project. I think unloading so many functions from your brain to have a computer do them is going to dull your wits.

Don't get me wrong, I think it's a pretty 'cool' innovation. But I think it really is going to serve to make the people who use it dumber, more socially withdrawn, and incapable of making their way around a city technology-free. That's not even looking at the privacy violations that are bound to happen. I mean come on, Google literally seeing and hearing everything that you see and hear?

Yeah I'm sure they would 'respect your privacy'. Until a subpoena comes. Until legislation forces them to keep archives of your activity to catch criminals.

[AntiTrace]

(05-31-2012 05:33 AM)Blunt Wrote:  

I wonder if technologies like this actually serve to make humans dumber.

Driving/walking without GPS requires you to make a lot of spatial calculations, use your natural sense of direction, make landmarks for yourself, remember street signs, or if worse comes to worst ask someone for help (I have never done this). You get a tiny feeling of accomplishment when you arrive at your destination without the help of a gadget.

I am fearing this too. I have seen this in myself in the form of auto-correct or the ability to just click on the misspelled word and have an option of all the words the computer thought I was attempting to spell. And I used to be a spelling bee champ when I was a kid, all those 3rd grade girls wanted to share their snacks with me.

I realized it when I constantly misspelled the same word over and over, and still didn't know the correct spelling. I have since starting making a conscious effort to look up the definition of words I don't know or spell wrong.

[Kitsune]

Technology makes you more stupd if you don't make it your bitch.

That is the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

Most people nowadays are basically retarded.

[MattW]

This guy wore it for two weeks and gives a review:

https://plus.google.com/+Scobleizer/posts/ZLV9GdmkRzS

Quote:

This is the most interesting new product since the iPhone and I don't say that lightly.

The main reason the iPhone was so great was that it was an internet browser in your pocket. Google Glass seems to be an internet browser on your eyes (that's voice activated).

It looks too strange for me to actually want to use, but what looks normal changes pretty quickly. Five years from now there could be half a dozen different styles of this thing to choose from that are all "cool" looking.

[NY Digital]

Something like this was bound to eventually happen, the way technology was rapidly expanding. The most important part for this isn't Google getting the revenues from the glasses, but the services from Google. People will begin to shift to Google's services.. for everything.

If not Google, than Apple. Or Microsoft. Google has an insane amount of resources and they were dedicated to the project so they got there first.


This is the beginning of the end. People are going to become more sheepish and withdrawn from actual social interaction. How will you get away from technology if it's on your face 24/7?

It's sad, really.

But inevitable.

[Roosh]

This won't get big with girls. Attractive ones, anyway.

[Kabal]

Something about his nasally, high-pitched voice makes me suspect that he has a really punchable face.

[Laner]

More than any other device this will begin the obvious split between those who accept and push the technology, and those who refuse.

Think of the "flip phone" guys but far more "in your face" hah

[cardguy]

I don't think this will ever take off. I don't see the point of having the internet in your face - when it is just as accesible from your pocket.

GOOGLE needs alot of these hype products - along with the hype surrounding the 'geniuses' who work for them and the amazing work conditions they have. To distract from the fact that they are a giant advertising company pretending to be a technology company - sitting on 80% of the world's internet search revenues. They are a Microsoft style monopoly and need silly shit like this to throw up enough sand to make people forget about this.

[GenJx]

(04-27-2013 08:06 PM)cardguy Wrote:  

I don't see the point of having the internet in your face - when it is just as accesible from your pocket.

i dont see the point of having the internet in your pocket - when it is just as accessible from your desk at home. jajajajajajaja

[Pacesetter20]

If this is the future I want no part of it.

[RawGod]

Even if this takes off, this won't affect people who live in poorer countries as much, for obvious reasons. Not a solution, but another benefit for those who live in places like South East Asia.

[ozzyyooo]

I heard about this like last year. I thought it was an amazing idea at first but after seeing some people's take on it, it really changed my mind. Do you know how dangerous this could be? Idiots(betas) using google glass to watch porn while driving. It sounds like I'm making light of the situation but it's a very serious issue. I don't even have a phone and I'm loving my life. We already have enough auto accidents from texting anyways.

[Screwston]

My smart phone broke a while back and I connected an old slider phone. Honestly, I feel liberated and more like a real human being. I can't fuck with it when I'm bored and am forced to be in my own head or socialize with people. Also, like Blunt said, I'm having to map out destinations if it's in a new spot and memorize street names or something to help me find my way there/back on the right freeway. I got lost in some town and had to ask an old guy for directions at a gas station. He said "nobody's asked me for directions in years" haha. I honestly don't know if I wanna get another smart phone. It's scary how much technology can control you and turn your brain into shit. I hate seeing friends and family just buried in their phone instead of living life and checking everything out around them.

(04-27-2013 11:10 PM)ozzyyooo Wrote:  

Idiots(betas) using google glass to watch porn while driving. It sounds like I'm making light of the situation but it's a very serious issue.

Hahahaha

[Kabal]

(04-27-2013 10:33 PM)RawGod Wrote:  

Even if this takes off, this won't affect people who live in poorer countries as much, for obvious reasons. Not a solution, but another benefit for those who live in places like South East Asia.

I disagree. Poorer countries very quickly absorb and in many cases, leapfrog the technology of wealthier countries.

[Days of Broken Arrows]

(05-30-2012 04:15 PM)nyc Wrote:  

File under SWPL.

Highlights include buying tickets to Monsieur Gayno, meeting up with a fellow herb to "check out that new place", and playing a ukulele for a girl in front of the setting sun.

The takeaway I get from this is that now in addition to oblivious drivers getting hit by vehicles while texting, we'll see oblivious pedestrians being hit by vehicles while wearing these glasses.

Luckily, they'll be like the narrator of this video, so it won't be any major loss.

[Atilla]

The radiofrequency field generated by a cell phone causes brain tissue to heat up when the phone is put to your ears. Meanwhile, if you leave a smartphone in your pocket, the radiation can cause you to become sterile, develop erectile dysfunction, or increase your cancer risk. There's no way I'm putting some shit like this near my eyes.

[uni]

GOOGLE GLASS = ZOEY IMPLANT , the central theme of the awesome movie FINAL CUT (2004)