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Sergey Brin Says Using a Smartphone Is 'Emasculating'
An anonymous reader writes "While speaking at the TED Conference in California earlier today, Sergey Brin seemingly tried to set the stage for a world where using Google Glass is as normal as using a smartphone. What's more, Brin went so far as to say that using smartphones is 'emasculating.' Brin said that smartphone users often seclude themselves in their own private virtual worlds. 'Is this the way you're meant to interact with other people,' Brin asked. Are people in the future destined to communicate via just walking around, looking down, and 'rubbing a featureless piece of glass,' Brin asked rhetorically. 'It's kind of emasculating. Is this what you're meant to do with your body?' Is wearing futuristic glasses any better?"
Another reader sends in an article that also muses on our psychological connection to our devices. Or, as he puts it, the "increasingly weird and perhaps overly intimate relationship we have with our gadgets; the fist we touch when awake, the last at night. Our minds have become bookended by glass."
I don't know about Brin, but my e-masculinity is e-normous. Bookends help hold it all in.
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The size of your screen?
I don't think you want to know what touches my fist when I awake.
Or trying to hold a conversation with someone who's ignoring you and reading Slashdot on their glasses?
There's no -1 for "I don't get it."
Sergey just doesn't get it. My Android phone is a big swinging phallic symbol, especially when it does those 3D maps.... iPhone toting hipster chicks never fail to notice. Got plenty of mileage out of that, opposite sex wise. Sergey just doesn't know how to hold it.
When all you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a thumb.
This "Joy of Tech" cartoon explains what will really happen with Google glasses:
The Reality of Google Glasses
For me, he is well past his sell-by date. Can't he buy some remote island and cocoon there?
You're being hysterical.
OR ARE YOU??
Fun fact: when Google introduced Wave, they announced that it had superior contextual spell checking, and could (for example) correct "your" vs "you're". I tried plugging in that poem (on Docs) to see what would happen, and...
...it recommended changing "have" to "halve". And that was it.
Wow.
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There's a great defence when going out on a date.
"Looking down at your cleavage? Please what kind of person do you think I am! I was watching porn!"
You should try Mandroid - for the vigorous hetrosexual!
The great thing about Google Glass wearers is that a combination of traffic and natural selection will limit their numbers.
It's spelled "FRIST," as in "FRIST PSOT!" Learn to write properly before you come to post here. This is /., the land of the pedant spelling Nazis.
Oh come on. We know you were actually reading slashdot on your date. Noone's going to believe the porn story.
SJW n. One who posts facts.
No one's even going to believe the date story. :)