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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?
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."
This "Joy of Tech" cartoon explains what will really happen with Google glasses:
The Reality of Google Glasses
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!"
The great thing about Google Glass wearers is that a combination of traffic and natural selection will limit their numbers.
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. :)