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Google Glass: What's With All the Hate?
An anonymous reader writes "Techcrunch takes a look at why so many people seem to make fun of Google Glass. From the article: 'Google Glass isn't even on sale yet and there is already a noticeable backlash against Google's first experiment in wearable computing. It's odd to see a product that was greeted with so much hype a year ago endure the love-hate cycle so quickly – even though there are only a few thousand units in the wild. Sure, we've done our share to popularize "glasshole" as a way to describe its users, but the backlash seems to go beyond the usual insidery tech circles.'"
Maybe because it isn't so much "wearable computing" as it is "wearable Google-centric media player"???
I can think of a few reasons. A device whose sole purpose is to bombard you with ads, which can be used to track you, which destroys the privacy of anyone around you, and that costs well over $1000 and that Google thinks it still retains the ownership of it? No thanks.
Seven puppies were harmed during the making of this post.
Remember people walking around talking to themselves? Remember the "I'm not talking to you, I'm on the phone" hand gesture?
It combined being rude with wearing a dorky looking apparatus.
And that's what Google Glass is.
We're on camera ENOUGH already....I think a lot of people that aren't even that privacy conscious even are concerned about so many live feeds going to Google (or anyone for that matter, since the govt. will have free access to it too).
JUst my $0.02.
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hype_cycle
I think people are just scared from such a step towards total computization of a human being.
Nowadays there is a wave of resistence to all the technological super-advancements maybe just because people do not feel ready their life to be so rapidly changed...
In my opinion, it is fear of the new and fear of the robotization of a humanity...
Because they make the wearer look like a dork (not a geek or even a nerd).
I rank it right up there with Beats headphones.
Most would probably love to use Google Glass themselves, but right now there are only *other* people using it, and that has a net result of reducing our freedom. Even when it's a mass market product, people are probably less positive about the benefits than they are negative about being under constant surveillance. We've just heard how the mistakes of our youth shouldn't be persistent, but the very same company is now working on making our present mistakes persistent. Is that enough of an explanation?
The fact that Chertoff advocated for more full-body scanners in U.S. airports is the kind of irony and cognitive dissonance that has recently been a hallmark of American politics.
Of course he did. He was a salesman for RapidScan ( the X-ray machines ) posing as an expert.
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1. It makes you look like a cyborg. The fact that one would do this to their own appearance willingly puts a person so many sigma beyond what is expected in societal norms that it produces an insinctive negative reaction.
2. Being wearable, it conveys an "always on" notion, that many people find troublesome because although in theory, it does not invade their privacy any more than a person with a cell phone camera can, unlike a hand-held camera, there are no obvious gestures or poses that a utilizer of this technology will typically employ that tells casual observers in an immediately recognizable way that the technology is being utilized. Looking for an LED light is all very well and good, but human beings didn't evolve to look at LED's to tell them what was around them... we evolved to interpret body language.
3. It's simply far too easy to imagine people using this while they are walking or driving and thus paying insufficient attention to their surroundings to effectively navigate, potentially posing a danger to themselves and others around them.
4. It's always been socially cool to mock something that's new and different.
File under 'M' for 'Manic ranting'
And underwent surgery in order to get rid of glasses as they were the worst annoyance in my life - so there's no chance of me using this product.
People don't realise just how much these things are going to negatively affect you - you are going to be cleaning them all the time, they are going to cause irritation and issue with our hair and the side of your head, they are going to range from being unnoticeable to unignorable literally in minutes all throuout the day.
That's my take on it all. The wearable aspect is just a poor substitute for what we have been "promised" in fiction, so until it brings the positives without the negatives that I already went to great lengths to avoid, I'm not buying into it.
Glasses with a front facing camera - glasshole.
Smartphone with a camera on both sides - acceptable.
Watch with a camera - James Bond.
Everyone keeps saying that the hate for Google Glass is based on it being 'new' but that's simply not it, the hate is based on it being yet another way to turn everyone into 'citizen surveillance'. Facial recognition, really? WHY?
People are getting tired of not only the constant intrusion into their private lives by megacorporations, but also the need to constantly stay on guard, a neverending vigil to protect any sense of privacy that they have left.
It's tiring.
For every person who hates Glass based on how they might use it how many more hate it because of its use against them?
I despise Glass for heralding the beginning of an always-on social surveillance culture.
Glass is so much worse than what we've seen before because:
1. It's always on. Camera phones are everywhere, but you can tell when people are using them. Glass, not so much. You don't know when it's being used on you.
2. Unlike CCTV, whose operators are bound by profit or budgetary constraints, and keep footage long enough for it to no longer be useful (after which it's deleted, such as when the 7-11 wasn't robbed that night) Glass is to be used by people who have no rational reason to delete the recordings. Their motive is social, fun. They'll retain and share the data because it amuses them. The Kwik-E-Mart operator has no such motive.
3. It's pervasive and distributed. Unlike a room of cops monitoring a citywide CCTV service, who have to focus their attention, the millions of forthcoming Glass users have no such time constraints.
4. Participation is mandatory. If you don't like the social networking culture you will still be forced to participate in it by others who will happily snap and tag, uploading to social networks using facial recognition.
Why is Glass so much worse than what we've seen before? Before, you could be recorded anywhere, but more than likely nobody would care enough to retain it unless they were your friend or you were doing something noteworthy.
Glass changes everything.
Glass makes participation in the online social surveillance culture part of the human experience, and it isn't an opt-in activity.
I hope anti-Glass signs appear everywhere.
I, for one, will refuse to patron establishments that let people get away with using this. I'm not doing anything wrong, but what I'm doing is none of anybody else's business unless I choose to share my life with them. I will not quietly accept being an object of someone else's amusement. I'm not your fucking actor, and I'm not your fucking photography subject.
I think it is because this is one of the first outwardly visible examples of the future we have created. Glass may fail as a product. Still, the technology of the internet is already in the material world, and no longer limited to computer console devices we must interact with willfully. There will be a value war that will be played out in coming years. Either we throw away the entire internet (not going to happen), or we leave behind our historical ideals on many things, most notably privacy.
red and blue 3D glasses
2K-ish "monitor glasses
2010's 3D glasses
glasses in general, especially when young
everyones loves them so much ! why all the sudden, incomprehensible hate towards Google Glass ? I was SO looking forward to wearing glasses AT LAST !
The Cloud - because you don't care if your apps and data are up in the air.
At the moment Google Glass can't do very much, but it is only a matter of time before it does more.
I have mild face blindness, and it would be fantastically useful for me to have a pair of glasses that could identify who I was talking to.
Equally well, it would make life very difficult for me if other people had similar glasses. I run a website that is considered objectionable to some people. If everyone could recognise me every time I went out to buy milk, it would be very difficult for me to live anything like a normal life.
The passive-aggressive nature of social networks would be magnified if they were in any way integrated with Google Glass or indeed any wearable computer.
"Google Glass is scary because it's easier to record others!"
You have a cellphone in your pocket capable of doing just that, and pinhole surveillance cameras have existed forever anyway.
"Google Glass is scary because GPS!"
Your cellphone doesn't even need an active GPS setting in order to be tracked. As an Android App developer, I can just use a Network Location Provider and triangulate your position to within 100-1000 meters. If you have a cellphone, you're being tracked just as easily as with Glass.
"Google Glass is scary because it might serve me ads!"
That's from an early video parody of Glass. Ads are against Google's guidelines.
"Google Glass is scary because they're trying to get us to depend on it, then sneakily put in ads and spyware!"
Even if they do that, we've already got the dumped firmware for Glass. Just run a custom ROM on it.
"Google Glass is scary because some pseudo-libertarian tech journalist told me to be scared!"
Oh ok, I guess that explains the inconsistency in your position. Funny how all these former pro-corporate tech gossip douchebags are suddenly worried about your rights. Where were they 10 years ago? And for that matter, where were you?
How would you feel talking to a person wearing this shit?
She might be recording you and posting it to YouTube.
I probably sound like my grandpa, but Google Glass just feels to me creepy and invasive.
There could be some commercial usage of it though, like FedEx finding and signing off a package...
This: http://www.theverge.com/2013/5/15/4333656/larry-page-teases-robert-scoble-for-nude-google-glass-photo
I don't hate Google Glass. I think it would have some very interesting potential commercial/industrial/medical applications.
I just hate the kind of person who gets giddy over the idea of new tech like this, and thinks there's nothing wrong with wearing such a device all the time in public.
Don't have a pair yet but already have plans to put them to work!
"Gargoyles are no fun to talk to. They never finish a sentence. They are adrift in a laser-drawn world, scanning retinas in all directions, doing background checks on everyone within a thousand yards, seeing everything in visual light, infrared, millimeter. wave radar, and ultrasound all at once. You think they're talking to you, but they're actually poring over the credit record of some stranger on the other side of the room, or identifying the make and model of airplanes flying overhead. For all he knows, Lagos is standing there measuring the length of Hiro's cock through his trousers while they pretend to make conversation. ..."
and
"Gargoyles represent the embarrassing side of the Central Intelligence Corporation. Instead of using laptops, they wear their computers on their bodies, broken up into separate modules that hang on the waist, on the back, on the headset. They serve as human surveillance devices, recording everything that happens around them. Nothing looks stupider; these getups are the modern-day equivalent of the slide-rule scabbard or the calculator pouch on the belt, marking the user as belonging to a class that is at once above and far below human society. They are a boon to Hiro because they embody the worst stereotype of the CIC stringer. They draw all the attention. The payoff for this self-imposed ostracism is that you can be in the Metaverse all the time, and gather intelligence all the time. ..."
Glassholes are essentially a late-alpha/early-beta iteration of the Gargoyles from Snow Crash. The people who managed to bring the dickery that was bluetooth earpieces to an even more vital sense, along with just enough camera to get that 'incipient paparazzi' thing going.
It should be "Google Glasses" but no, the dimwits insist that it be called "Glass" oh that makes me pig-biting mad, it's worse than a thousand cheese graters to the nads, it makes me mad I tell you!
Anyone with a brain can tell that this level of mobile computer usage is ridiculous. It's bad for memory, concentration, social skill development, social interactions in general. Nobody should be able to have that much information streaming that quickly whenever they want. Then the stress of battery phobia combined with a growing dependence on the device equals a very stressed out user. It's a very, very stupid idea that's detrimental to humans in general.
It's exactly like Segways. It's convenient and a good idea on the surface but in reality it isn't practical or a good idea at all and it makes the user fat, unhealthy, and causes hip and knee problems. This is a device that seems nice on the surface but actually causes concentration and social problems and likely vision problems too plus an addictive dependence on technology that makes the user unable to function without it.
It will be interesting to see what happens with google glass. Even if they release a product with no camera, the media will still report it as a privacy invading device.
Because they could not create something like this.
http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=306
Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens
I have had low vision all my life, I deal with it the way most of us do, thick wyw glasses and regular consultation with my eye doctor - this opens the door for those of us in this position to be unwelcome in business meetings, family gatherings or other places where people dont want to be bugged - sure, the curent model is big and goofy, but the first laptops weighed like 12 LBS too - as this tech becomes more and more indistinguishable people will assume that anyone with glasses has it!
The solution, we need a law that google glass, or anything f that sort, needs to have a visible LED, not just when recording, but whenever t is powered on to indcate that the eyeglasses re not just eyeglasses.
Okay, I'm not going to do that, but most woman are going to be PISSED if a guy does that, especially when he's possibly recording them. Glass is a creepers best friend. At least with a phone/camera it's semi obvious what's going on.
Google should have kept the camera until version 2.
Glass with only the HUD would not have gained hate. Maybe ridicule, but at least a following that would have gained it some access to the general market and maybe acceptance (MAYBE).
Now they are getting the full blow of people being paranoid (reasonably) about the camera capturing issue before they have a following of happy users.
Remember most - perhaps not YOU - really do not care about the privacy issue enough to steer clear of advertising, opt-ins and whatever scheme corporations might want to lure you into.
Yeah, I know we don't have an expectation of privacy while in public and all the other crap, but maybe people are just getting tired of the whole damn camera culture. I know I am. It's bad enough to be on surveillance cameras all the time but now you can be on everybody's cell phone, google glass and god knows what else. I'm a masters bicycle racer. A couple of years ago USA Cycling decided to allow helmet mounted cameras in races. Now, for all I know, the asshole that can't beat me in a sprint has posted 15 minutes of video of my ass that he took while riding my wheel at the Ontario crit last weekend. Bet that's exciting. For me anyway, google glass is the last straw.
This applies to cameras, stereos, computers, phones etc...
It is that, "The time to declare something the best or the worst is before it has been released and before anyone can get their hands on it"
Once, released - who cares?
Google has expanded from indexing existing information to indexing people. The more you share with Google, the more value you bring to Google in terms of creating marketing value. They can sell more and more targeted advertising based on where you go, who you are with, what stores you frequent, what hobbies you have, how you travel, how much time you spend in specific places, etc. Google Glass is the ultimate extension of that strategy. I would be far more interested in buying a product like this from a company that makes money selling products as opposed to a company focused on extruding as much information from me in order to resell it.
>"Google Glass: What's With All the Hate?"
Is it that mysterious? Many people have already posted on many sites as to why. If people would stop asking why and start reading some of the answers, maybe they would understand...
It presents major issues with privacy, security, and etiquette. It isn't just dorky, it is rude, creepy, and invasive too. The author and Google (especially the CEO) seems to just completely skirt the entire issue of privacy- not only for the user, but all the hundreds of "victims" around a Glass user, every day. Take out your phone and hold it up in the air, pointed at everyone you pass, meet, talk to, sit next to, and see what kind of reactions ensue. This is nothing like static and unconnected security cameras. Exactly how much private information are we all going to be willing to give Google?
We just went through this: http://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/05/03/1322242/is-google-glass-too-nerdy-for-the-mainstream
AND
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/04/26/2316211/eric-schmidt-google-glass-critics-afraid-of-change-society-will-adapt
But I guess we have to hash it out every month now :(
I don't have a Facebook account. I have a fake name on my Google accounts and Twitter. I don't ever use my real name on forums. I even gave Blizzard a fake name. I take GREAT care to leave my personal life off the internet and preserve my privacy. So now what do we have? Some asshole walking around taking videos or pictures in complete stealth mode with no LED to tell you it's recording or in use. Early adopters are also usually the tech-addicted people that put a picture of everything moderately interesting on Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter, and Instagram. If I start saying something funny or interesting to a glass user and they stealthy hit record, I don't want that video of myself out on their 1000-friend Facebook page without my knowledge.
For those of you about to say any video recording is public and the law says I can be video recorded at any time in public because that's the reasonable expectation of privacy, you're missing the logic of that. I want some basic privacy so then I guess I'll just never go out in public ever. Wait, no, it would be easier to just make Glass and other covert recording devices illegal everywhere.
Wait until some bright person invents something you can hide away, say in your pocket and it can secretly record a conversation! Then you'll see the privacy guys up in arms! oh... wait.....
How about Google puts a little green LED on them to show when they are indeed recording. Like I know when my laptop webcam is on (and so does my girlfriend sadly..)
Then everyone can shut up about on the thousand of forums complaining about privacy; the same masses that were pushing for such technology. I am a business owner and I honestly cannot wait to get my hands on one, I do believe it will change the way I work. However, it's not going to do much for you if you sit behind a computer screen all day.
Down with Glasses! Your local Amish community awaits!
Astoundingly hilarious
freak out when cops get mad about being recorded getting mad about being recorded.
I'm indifferent about Glass right now. What bugs me is the same people that are hating on Google Glass right now will go ooh and ah when Apple comes out with their version of Glass and claim its the best thing since sliced bread. As for the hate, I don't think people are hating on Glass primarily, it is just the outlet. Its Google hate partially because Google is no longer the underdog, but also because they're killing products that people actually like and it has started a backlash.
All the hate is because it is not made by Apple.
If it was iGlass, the love-in would be tremendous. Of course, if Apple made it, there would be no customer input, no previews, no leaks and no idea the product even existed until after the "one more thing..." moment arrived.
But after that, the store lines would already be forming.
I mountain bike quite a bit and often I'll record my ride with a GoPro for later editing and sharing with my non-mountain biking friends/family. It's pretty much on the entire time I'm riding (2-3hrs).
However...
I don't wear it in the car, the post-ride restaurant, during long breaks, to the bathroom (either in the restaurant or out in the woods).
If I showed up with the GoPro recording in a restaurant, I'd be calmly asked to turn it off. As that is behavior that is clearly not accepted.
Sure pinhole cameras have been around forever, but GoogleGlass will be mainstream, whereas pinhole cameras aren't that common. Plus the modders will come along and put the GoogleGlasses behind a pair of nondescript sunglasses and you'll be able to record (read: blackmail) whoever you want. Your boss tells a dirty joke at work... hello raise.
I view this as a chance to sue the wearers in small claims court when they upload my image without a release. I will never have to work a day after this become common.
KING RICHARD III:
My Privacy! My Privacy! My Privacy for a pair of Google Glass!
Anyone around here old enough to remember 2007?
Seriously, hype or hate, people care one way or the other. Let's wait. Well, or feed the hype/hate if you like that better.
They're gay.
Have you ever been on a date with someone who leaves their phone on the table and checks it every 30 seconds? Now imagine being on a date with someone but their phone is implanted over their eye and they do not stop checking it at all. Die Google Glass, Die.
Fast Federal Court and I.T.C. updates
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_(novel)#Predictions
In short, Luddites. People with lots of paranoia and no vision. No one thinks about the hard of hearing guy who can someday soon have real-life closed captioning. No, it's all about how everyone wants to take secret videos of me while I'm in public, as if they couldn't do that already. Never mind the fact that soon enough, if people really want to record everything they see, they'll be able to do it with something that looks like a regular pair of glasses, and you'll never know. Well, I guess that at least means we'll only have to listen to whiny cavemen until the form factor changes.
A HUD is something i've wanted since ... so long ago i cant even remember when it started, but it was certainly around the time of me owning an amiga 500 and really dont understand the hate factor behind google glass nor where its coming from...
But then, i dont entirely get the bluetooth headset hate either, nor why some people find people talking on mobile phones in public to be a nuisance.
To me, i chalk it up to a single simple thing - hatred of technology and im exactly the opposite of that
The *ONLY* thing i can understand about what might make people dislike the idea of google glass is the camera, thats a feature i can understand people not being happy with.
But then, being able to record people in secret has been a simple thing for quite a long time now and you can do it for not even a fraction of the cost of what google glass is. In reality, at least when i see someone is wearing google glass i know they have a camera pointed at me, but if you've seen a watch, pen, button or any other form of hidden video/audio recording device (available these days for under ~$50) then google glass holds very little to threaten any reasonably intelligent person.
The people who say "I'll never buy Glass." are just like that people 12 years ago (I was one) who said they would never buy a cell phone. "I don't need it." They said, then they got one but would never a get a smartphone "Who needs it!" they said, now they say they will never get Glass.
This luddism is as predictable as it is boring.
It's hilarious you think that now is the time when computers will quit being smaller and more integrated into our lives.
Title fail: You spelled Hype wrong.
Gargoyles represent the embarrassing side of the Central Intelligence Corporation. Instead of using laptops, they wear their computers on their bodies, broken up into separate modules that hang on the waist, on the back, on the headset. They serve as human surveillance devices, recording everything that happens around them. Nothing looks stupider; these getups are the modern-day equivalent of the slide-rule scabbard or the calculator pouch on the belt, marking the user as belonging to a class that is at once above and far below human society.
-- Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash (June 1992). chapter 15
Wearable computing gadgets (and head-mounted devices in particular) have always been viewed derisively, going as far back as the concept exists. Look at all the stereotypes associated with bluetooth headsets. Fanbois of any stripe are always quick to claim their favored device is being singled out unfairly, and they're more than willing to conveniently forget a couple decades worth of history if it makes their victimization look better. (see all the "Apple invented cool technology XYZ" arguments for good examples of this).
tl;dr:
wah wah wah something that's never been cool is still not cool. News at 11.
Sure, we've done our share to popularize "glasshole" as a way to describe its users...
yea. users which represent 0% of the population
(rounded off to the nearest millionth of a percent)
People don't care about privacy, not until it's the "creepy" guy staring at them instead of the average guy.
Given your description nobody was aware that they were being recorded. They may have thought that your glasses were strange but it is usually not considered polite to question someone on their choice of glasses just like you would not tend to question someone choice of clothes. That being said I would not care about being recorded walking or driving down a street in public. However take those glasses into the gents or a changing room and I'll not be happy: context is the key. The big difference between Google glasses and a camera phone is that there is no way for anyone to know whether you are recording or not. This is the problem GG: you can easily surreptitiously record.
I'll go on the record saying that as a technology follower and early adopter on a budget, the release strategy for Google Glass has seemed positively elitist. For a product that doesn't cost much to make, and seems suited to a wide variety of use cases, Google did a good job of locking down availability to the degree where only wealthier, "social media" active types or developers were able to get one. The restriction to developers isn't a problem, but the whole "Let's hand these out to people with a lot of followers." thing seems to be an even more advanced play from Apple's book on hanging out items to celebrities likely to show them off in public.
Say whatever you will about the economy and "economic divide", but when technology like this seems to be filtered to a whole new type of "elites" based on likes, tweets and fans... People can get resentful in a hurry. And yes, this probably is some pretty serious projecting.
My own pointless vanity vintage computing page
Fear. Uncertainty. Doubt.
This is not the way to build a lasting empire.
Maybe because Google is a spying behemoth of the state? The dystopian company of our nightmares.
I sometimes wonder if when somebody makes something 3 times better at 1/5 the price the shills jump in to try to create a negative buzz.
I don't understand why all this concern about privacy "on public places". If you have a problem, why don't you wear a paper-bag?
..you wouldn't hit a guy with Google glasses on, would you?
Nobody wants to be the lame-o to start the trend, lest it ends up like the Segway and all the other things that scream "bad geek" instead of "good geek".
Plus there's the fact that it doesn't really do anything that a cellphone can't do without being socially acceptable.
A huge part of the benefit of something like Google Glass is the whole augmented reality thing, which pretty much requires a camera to work at all.
Yes, there are some things you could do without a camera, but it would be vastly inferior device--and besides, nobody will be able to tell if the wearer has a camera or not, so they'll need to assume anything vaguely Glass-like will have a camera and act accordingly.
LMFAO, all the google glass fanbois are going to be in for a rude awakening when all the video from these devices gets datamined by google/third parties and they start getting gangstalked/harassed/blackmailed/psychologically abused. LMFAO
People keep on comparing Glass to bluetooth headsets without actually reflecting on why we hate them. It bears repeating: we hate them because of those several awkward seconds where you try to reply, thinking you're being addressed. The "asshole" part comes when the headset user says something like "hold on, this guy thinks I'm talking to him" or something else that implies you're an idiot for not immediately recognizing the headset. It's embarrassing, and insulting, and dismissive. In short, it takes basic social conventions and protocol and rudely slugs it in the face. Said social conventions, even the customary "good morning" a fuel station clerk greets you with, is lubricant for the social gears of society, and those headset users are sand in the works. It's not the headsets at all - its the people using them that never apologize for the misconceptions they cause, or politely put their conversation on hold when they walk up to a pay window.
Everyone screams and wails about being "recorded in public," which I find hilarious, considering how much we're already recorded, tracked and observed. If you're in public, people can record you freely, and no court of law is going to give a rats ass that somebody was able to SEE you when you went walking around on a public sidewalk. No, the real discomfort comes from having a computer screen between you and the person you're talking to. Google Glass is the first step towards things like augmented reality and other such technologies; but the precedent we've all learned from is the Arrogant Headset Asshole; and so naturally that's the first association we make.
Probably several different things, combining as one. For starters, the economy has been terrible, and when the economy is terrible, humans act their worst. As such, seeing something like this, a device which costs a fair amount of money, and separates the haves from the have nots...well, there may be some jealousy in play there.
Additionally, there are the privacy concerns brought on by such devices. Camera phones which are occasionally on are different from a device which is seen as always on. It's like having a CC camera mounted to someone's head.
I am John Hurt.
Scanning these first comments, most of the complaints seem based on their own idea of Glass, or perhaps what they fear future devices may end up as, but not what Glass is today.
For example: It's crap as a media player (sound is poor, video is low-res and washed out) . It's not "always-on recording" or streaming everything to Google, and would rapidly run out of battery if you tried. It does light up when recording or taking pictures, like a regular video camera (and unlike phones or keychain camcorders). And Google specifically forbids ads on the whole platform.
Maybe one day some people will wear devices that are worth the hate, but Glass isn't it. Personally I see it all as another manifestation of the recent anti-Google narrative that's been so carefully constructed (e.g. ask yourself if you'd have the same reaction to "Apple Glass").
Why would anyone engrave "Elbereth"?
Did you say hate? We haven't even come to the question if the glasses play adobe flash ads... that's going to go thermonuclear.
Because no one wants to be a borg! And it doesn't play p0rn! So there!
You'd hate Russia. Every single car that goes past IS recording you.
Why would anyone engrave "Elbereth"?
Cameras make people uncomfortable. It really is that simple. There will be beatings.
The creepiest parts of Minority Report isn't the authoritarian wet dream of "pre-crime", it's the ubiquitous nano-targeting of advertising. Making people buy their consent for this, in the form of wearable hardware, is more revenue friendly (and practical given current technology) than installing eye scanners everywhere.
We are finally realizing that Google knows too much about us, hence the backlash. Google Glass represents the subtle difference between "can" and "should", in a passively invasive way.
I'm just hatin their crap ass attitude towards developing for it.
which they are having because "omg public backslash from recording!!".. google is themselves creating that backslash. they didn't come up with ar demos which would help you in doing your homework or help you watch baseball or whatever.
it's kind of stupid, because hud could be useful even if it didn't have a camera - but now they have made it pretty much to be just a wearable camera. it's a PR fuckup.
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
The issues people seem to have with Google Glass and privacy remind me of one of my favorite Einstein quotes: "The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one"
Glass is a new thing.
Glass is a different thing. All the other things you mention did not intrude on others. Glass is a different thing, it is a video recorder, it is a facial recognition system, etc. People don't really want to have a stanger "check them into" a specific location, that is quite different than a mobile device that checks you into some location.
You want a good analogy for google glass, it is the cameras on some cars that continuously read the license plates of the cars in front of them and behind them and enter them into a database used by auto repo people. bail bondsmen, etc.
If someone is wearing unusual glasses, especially if they don't look like their special in an aesthetic or fashionable way, then it is fairly natural to assume that theyre wearing them for medical reasons -- in which case it would probably be rude to ask them about it.
Just for the record: I would ask people to turn of their recording device if they want to keep my company.
Parent should not +Insightful or left alone; it's definitely not -1.
Google Glass is a nightmare because it removes the last vestiges of anonymity.
Let's say you have a conviction. You walk into McDonald's, and the GG-wearing cashier's face recog app pastes FELON on your forehead. Enjoy your spitburger.
Or, you're trying to have a conversation with [whoever], all the meanwhile someone else is watching you through those glasses and whispering comments in the other party's ear.
What little level playing field is left will go away with technology like this. I suppose its inevitable, but its not good.
Who wants to walk around being photographed by a bunch of geeked-out versions of Dog the Bounty Hunter?
I wonder if hats with very powerful magnets on might solve this problem?
Too late I already patented them.
i wasn't ware of that term, thanks for popularizing it even more!
Obviously it is well in both their interests to oppose it.
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Google glass has one compelling case: being used for recording the actions of police.
Whether this is when you are stopped for a driving offence or on the street, they cannot confiscate the already uploaded video. So keep Google Glass in your car and when you see the flashing lights in your mirrors, put them on after you stop and before the police officer arrives.
Only problem here is that their price will make them unaffordable to those who need the most.
Florida makes it a crime to intercept or record a "wire, oral, or electronic communication" in Florida, unless all parties to the communication consent.
It doesn't address any of the actual privacy concerns, it just says that the current implementation of Google Glass is crappy at actually invading your privacy.
It's simple... Glass is Google's "Jumped the Shark" moment.
Seriously, you don't get it?
1. You really need to have a computer screen in front of your face every waking minute spewing Google ads at you? What kind of sick freak are you?
2. You're fucking recording me? What kind of sick freak are you?
Really? You still don't understand? I made it pretty damned clear. What kind of sick Google fanboi are you?
Wearing wired or bluetooth headphones allows me to hold a voice conversation with my phone or real people, get directions, listen to music, read and write messages and work voice enabled apps while I'm on the go with the damn thing in my pocket out of my way. Whats the use case for wearing glasses and a stupid little screen all the time? What is the benefit? Why should anyone care?
I've seen a few demos on youtube and listened to a few interviews and have yet to hear a cogent reason why I would want to wear one of these things.
I can think of a few reasons not to partake:
Its google count on them to collect all yer shit.
Spy on everything/everyone else.
Fill ur brain with ads.
Mostly unproductive and pointless.
Distracting/dangerous
Makes you look stupid
WiFi only = useless joke
People freak out over things that are new and different. Even more so for things that impact one's lifestyle. The same thing happened with the ipad. Additionally it has a lot to do with geek culture in general. For as much as techy people like to pat themselves on the back when it comes to standing outside trends, the reality is that it's a remarkably stagnant and brittle subculture that's even more terrified of change than that of the average person.
Everything will be taken away from you.
Google Glass will be yet another form of distraction for drivers. By and large, people cannot attend to a close-up display and a far-off traffic situation at the same time. It's a limitation of human attention. The more Google Glass on the road, the more death.
It's an intersection of concerns with facial recognition, tagging and Big Tech's seemingly callous indifference to our privacy , all of that hitting up against our evolutionarily bequeathed intuition that when we walk along in life, we have more than a modicum of privacy amongst strangers. Basically people fast forwarded in their imaginations to (creepy... or otherwise) people using Google Goggles to look at us on the street and download a ton of information about us by matching our face to social media pictures of us or our house to information about us or our license plate to stuff people have said about our driving.
Take a picture of something and start talking about it with everyone quickly becomes take of picture of something which identifies us and start gossiping with strangers about us in even ordinary people's minds.
FB is bad enough. Now we're going to be tagged and bagged as we walk down the street. Hot girl? Who is she? Where does she live? Whoa look as this... DUDE!!!
That kind of thing is fantastically invasive and creepy and it's exactly what will happen because all new technology becomes porn why? because we're monkeys whose chief and overwhelming concern was is and always will be reproducing our genes with the hottest thing we can land in order to maximize our genetic fitness. Even if you don't think that's the reason all new technology becomes porn, the fact is , all new technology becomes porn of some sort , if only gossip porn.
So yeah, that's why people hate Google Goggles.
Google should have, at all times and at all places loudly ferociously and very publicly defended the anonymity of their users come hell or high court subpena.
Instead, they got Eric Schmidt :
http://www.pcworld.com/article/217313/googles_eric_schmidt_ex_ceos_most_memorable_quotes.html
"With Street View, we drive by exactly once, so you can just move." (if you don't like your residence being online)
"I actually think most people don't want Google to answer their questions, ...They want Google to tell them what they should be doing next."
"If I look at enough of your messaging and your location, and use Artificial Intelligence...we can predict where you are going to go,"
"Show us 14 photos of yourself and we can identify who you are. You think you don't have 14 photos of yourself on the Internet?"
"One day we had a conversation where we figured we could just try to predict the stock market,....And then we decided it was illegal. So we stopped doing that."
"If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place,"
If they were uniquely noted for their commitment to privacy, then maybe people would have trusted them with their faces. As it is, it's too late unwind it all and people are rightly concerned.
It is no coincidence that this "discussion: is being trolled by Google with its Glass-plants. Not just here, but across global media.
This is being rolled out at the same time as that movie "The Internship" - the wacky comedy about a could of loveable guys yuckin' it up at Google - where everyone is smart, brave and 'do no evil.'
This device is an integral part of the Surveillance State.
There is no "opt out." There is no privacy.
All data on, from or about you WILL BE UPLOADED to the Google Hive Mind.
And it will all be made possible by hapless nitwits trending for that free cup of coffee or a few drops of some water flavor enhancer.
It's a brave new world.
Too bad you just live in it.
Beta.
If Google wants your opinion they will give it to you.
as if the cell phone wielding zombies who walk down the sidewalk glued to their screens, head down and shambling needed ANYTHING ELSE TO DISTRACT THEM; someone goes and finds a way to take more of their senses (and sense in general) away from them. Good day sir!
There are enough sane people left to realize that. Nobody needs it, it creates numerous massive legal and social problems, this incarnation does not work well, battery life is low, etc. It just shows (again), that after using page-rank for search Google never had any really good ideas anymore and is now growing desperate. This thing is just as useful or needed as, say, the Windows 8 desktop "innovations".
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
I known it isn't exactly accurate, but I think Google Glass is just a tad too noticeable. In parallel, the smaller an audio headset is, the less likely it is to draw attention; full over ear headphone and boom mic over the mouth: WTF; tiny earpiece barely protruding: meh. Miniaturization (yes, even more) and a style redesign could help.
Just my opinion.
Because recording me without permission is a dick move. Yes you have every right to record the public in the public just like everyone your recording has the right to treat you like a dick for wearing a dicks uniform.
Google Glass is the very tiny tip of a huge iceberg. Assume you are being recorded at all times outside of your home. You may not like it, but it is a reality we live in.
Reality is what we choose to make it. not what the geek tells us it must be.
I bet most people wouldn't. The average person has to overcome a certain amount of shyness to introduce themselves to a stranger. If you're gonna compound that with making people afraid their awkward interaction with you will be uploaded to the internet where the entire world can watch it for all eternity, you might as well be wearing a sign on your forehead that says "don't talk to me".
1) Surveillance State. Google is nearly ubiquitous as it is, the fact that it could be recording everything everyone does has people scared shittless.
2) Google is being a huge dick about it. By Google, I mean one particular person, who takes criticism / dislike for early-model Google Glass and comes back like a drunken psychopath, trying to be as insulting and immasculating as possible.
3) A lot of people don't thinkthe technology is ready. Early adopters always face this problem.
4) People don't think society is ready. We already have places that tell you to turn your cellphones off for privacy reason, Google Glass would be a hundred times worse.
5) Google can't understand that people just don't like it. They figure you are either a fanboy or a hater, leaving no room for people who simply aren't sold / aren't interested.
"It's coming right for us!" *BLAM* *BLAM* *BLAM*
Hmm... filming cops is just fine, it's legally fine because nobody has the expectation of privacy being out in public and the police are not above that!
Google Glass, however, is intrusive--people have the expectation of privacy being out in public!
...it's Segway for your face!
I think the uproar around google glass is that it is causing the public to think about the privacy implications of possible pervasive video recording of their activities. ."
This is not a new problem. Ugly video glasses, cellphones with cameras for example. The press attention around these was mostly as an oddity:
"These could be used for . .
Google glass is more like ipads and smart phones which became ubiquitous in a very short period of time.
the original idea of augmented reality was to bring more to life -- more information about your surroundings, more interaction, more history, more detail. But this thing does none of that. Instead, it removes your environment, placing you back into the all-too-familiar calendar/e-mail/message/cat-video world.
I'd love to be sitting on a beach, looking out at the waves, and get information about the height of the waves, the times of the tides, the type of fish swimming beneath the waves, and that poem that poet wrote when he first discovered this beach.
I have zero interest in replacing my view of the beach with my e-mail messages, my friend's recipe for hamburgers, and the thousands of photographs random strangers took of what I can see with my own two eyes in front of me.
That is absolutely not legal and neither does a police officer have any right to make you stop taking pictures in public.
There are exceptions
Well which is it? Is there absolutely no case where a cop has a right to tell you to turn off your camera, or is there?
How is it I never see "Virtual Light" by William Gibson mentioned in conversations like this. An interactive inforich real world is enough to make me think glass is cool.
"hiro: you're a fucking gargoyle!"
quote from neal stephenson's book, "snow crash".
Personally, I have felt for a long time that this trend towards ever more intrusive gadgets has gone far enough. Sure, a smartphone can be useful sometimes, but when even having an ordinary dumb phone can feel too much like a straitjacket, does that not tell us that we've crossed the line somewhere? And the glasses are just literally in your face.
Google seems to have a tendency to shut down things we depend on and liked (Reader, Talk),
of course there's lots of annoyance in the direction of Google now.
Google Glass seems to be somewhat depending on "the cloud". They'll shut down those services too eventually.
(Beside the obvious privacy and photos-on-the-internet-forever issues.)
... it's BOTH!! I can't stand how "liberals" and "conservatives" believe they are each right when they are only HALF right. The mass media and special interests invading our schools and TV shows, etc. have successfully changed our thinking, or rather narrowed it, and certainly successfully eroded our collective critical thinking ability. We get into such frivolous arguments that reflect our worst fears (pervs, property rights, protection from the police -- don't forget the criminals want that, too -- the government writing laws and having access to military weapons -- wait! Lobbyists and defense contractors have those things too!) ... we get so caught up in the frivolous that the REAL issues get buried. I wouldn't be surprised if some of the detractors on here, rather the DISTRACTORS, are GOOGLE EMPLOYEES. Prove to me that none of them are!
What we have is essentially Thomas Jefferson's, et al, worst fears coming true.
Google, go to hell! I don't want MY wherabouts being tracked by YOUR products that OTHERS around me are using against MY liberty and will, via facial recognition and GPS and transmitted to YOUR servers where you and your "partners" (whether government or public or private businesses) can use MY INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY (my identity, wherabouts, etc.) as you see fit.
I'M NOT OKAY WITH THAT, PEOPLE! You'd think tech nerds would be smarter. Well, they are smart (knowledgable), just not intelligent (critically thinking). So sad, I pity you.
WAKE UP, AMERICA!
... it's BOTH!! I can't stand how "liberals" and "conservatives" believe they are each right when they are only HALF right. The mass media and special interests and Wall Street controlled multinational US corporations invading our schools and TV shows, etc. have successfully changed our thinking, or rather narrowed it, and certainly successfully eroded our collective critical thinking ability. We get into such frivolous arguments that reflect our worst fears (pervs, property rights, protection from the police -- don't forget the criminals want that, too -- the government writing laws and having access to military weapons -- wait! Lobbyists and defense contractors have those things too!) ... we get so caught up in the frivolous that the REAL issues get buried. I wouldn't be surprised if some of the detractors on here, rather the DISTRACTORS, are GOOGLE EMPLOYEES. Prove to me that none of them are!
What we have is essentially Thomas Jefferson's, et al, worst fears coming true.
Google, go to hell! I don't want MY wherabouts being tracked by YOUR products that OTHERS around me are using against MY liberty and will, via facial recognition and GPS and transmitted to YOUR servers where you and your "partners" (whether government or public or private businesses) can use MY INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY (my identity, wherabouts, etc.) as you see fit.
I'M NOT OKAY WITH THAT, PEOPLE! You'd think tech nerds would be smarter. Well, they are smart (knowledgable), just not intelligent (critically thinking). So sad, I pity you. I guarantee some Google employee will get offended by this and retalliate. If you value your life, LEAVE ME THE FU(K ALONE, EVIL GOOGLE MONSTER!
WAKE UP, AMERICA!
At the very least provocative of course. It's quite clear why there's a lot of backlash. No one needs to explain it really.
... it's BOTH!!
In any case, Google Glass is a technology that is DECEPTIVELY PACKAGED.
I can't stand how "liberals" and "conservatives" fight with each other and believe they are each right and the other is wrong, when neither side is more than HALF right. The mass media and special interests and Wall Street controlled multinational US corporations invading our puppet government (ultimately controlled by the PRIVATE Federal Reserve and politicians being such milk toast in the hands of the elite) and schools (both public and private) and TV shows, etc. have successfully changed our thinking, or at least narrowed it, and certainly eroded our collective critical thinking ability. We get into such frivolous arguments that reflect our worst fears (pervs -- which are often a scapegoat and straw man argument because their behavior is universally despised -- property rights -- which work more for the rich and powerful than the common people -- protection from the police -- don't forget the criminals want that, too -- the government writing laws and having access to military weapons -- wait! Private lobbyists and defense contractors have those things too!) ... we get so caught up in the frivolous that the REAL issues get buried. I wouldn't be surprised if some of the detractors on here, rather the DISTRACTORS, are GOOGLE EMPLOYEES. Prove to me that none of them are! At least they are Google worshippers who believe they couldn't live without Google's products. Even Google's main product, its search engine, has turned to crap as its squid-like arms have reached out and grabbed every other business it feels like while still controlling all of our search results and making us feel all warm and fuzzy inside about their evil corporation. They may not "create" the information, but Google is the monster that decides who will be at the top and who will be at the bottom of the search results. They also decide how they will use OUR information, OUR intellectual property rights, to financially benefit themselves and their "partners." I doubt you'll be able to unlink these glasses from Google and link them to your own private server! (Now someone's going to come back and whine, "well, that's OK because Google subsidizes it so it's THEIR property!" Well, you just made MY point, thank you very much!)
What we have is essentially Thomas Jefferson's, et al, worst fears coming true.
Who cares how the thing LOOKS! Who cares about tourists using it to stare at chicks on the beach!!! My God, don't you get it, people?
Google, go to hell! I don't want your products dumbing us down further! I don't want MY whereabouts being tracked by YOUR products that OTHERS around me are using against MY liberty and will, via facial recognition and GPS and transmitted to YOUR servers -- without the users' knowledge even -- where you and your "partners" (whether the NSA, the CIA, OR public or private businesses) can use MY INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY (my identity, whereabouts, etc.) as YOU see fit. We all know what Apple did, and it took a huge legal threat to make them "tame" their location database, but alas they still have one, and a very useful one at that. Google is becoming Apple. Both used to be good, but are turning evil, because our laws and system require them to serve themselves and their shareholders at OUR expense and above all else.
But Google Glass will be worse, much, much worse, than Apple's location database. Google Glass will track every one of us, whether we want to be tracked or not. It is the brainwashed corporate slug worms who argue that no one has any expectation of privacy in public. Those idiots are the 20-something kids still living in their parents' basement and who can't get real jobs because they're so, well, nerdy and can't think critically about anything. After all, one idiot who makes this argument tells people to STAY HOME if they expect privacy. I'm sure that's all he does ... sits at home. Good riddance, leech!
No one wearing these damn Google goggles will b
It is rather fashionable to dislike Google. Google is supposed to be tearing down the fabric of society, stone by stone. Even though several other companies are busily chipping away at the same stones - Facebook, Microsoft, the Social-hype-du-jour, etc - they don't get the type of special attention Google gets.
And now Google presents the penultimate society destroyer, creating a distributed panopticon of world-wide proportions. It is not relevant whether Glass actually will do all the bad stuff the detractors claim. What matters is that Glass is 'proof' of Google's bad intentions.
In a few years, other companies will create their own augmented reality devices. Microsoft will adapt their Kinect 3D-scanner to fit in a pair of spectacles, Apple will do the iGlasses, etc. Microsoft's product will be met with ridicule because it makes you look like those dorks from Weird Science. It will map your environment, helping Microsoft to expand their own mapping efforts to all 'public' areas, inside and out. It won't map your private quarters, unless told to do so by the relevant authorities. Apple's iGlasses will be hailed as the next coming of your favourite prophet, finally it is done right, opening up new markets, just working seamlessly together with the other iTools, how do they do it. Some people might grumble over Apple doing all those bad things which Google Glass was supposed to do but hey, it is their product, they can do with it what they want, if you don't like it, don't buy it - the same argument used to meet criticism on other parts of their walled garden. For some reason the iGlasses don't make you look like a dork, even though they look quite similar to Microsoft's product.
--frank[at]unternet.org
BECAUSE I DON'T FRICKING HAVE ONE!!!
Google does this time and time again, they limit early access turning desire into resentment and eventually outright hate.
And it worked SOOO well for google plus and waves. When people heard about it and wanted to use it, they couldn't. When they could, they no longer wanted it and the early users had left because nobody else was using it.
Here is a wakeup call: Google, you are a mega corp, you can't do "start small, then hope you grow" anymore. ANYTHING you launch must be instantly available to 6 billion people or the number of people who can't use your product will obliterate the few who can.
MMO Quests are like orgasms:
You may solo them, I prefer them in a group.
Google = nerdy search giant
Glass = really a monocle
Fashionable = wearable in public
Google Glass = monocle created by a nerdy search giant for wearing in public.
I see no problems here
I hate it because google took what was dearest to me: the Reader.
1. Google devolved from "do no evil" to a company that very much does evil. They bought doubleclick, and they track everybody across almost all websites. Visit some websites and watch your browser download tons of extraneous stuff from google-owned servers.
2. Google went full-arrogant with having people have to write an essay in order to qualify to purchase their head-mounted camera for $1500. If the camera was truly something amazing, I might cut them some slack, but the fact is that it's not that amazing. It was over-the-top marketing hubris for something that a dozen Chinese companies will be making $100 knock-offs of in 12 months. My reaction to marketing hubris is generally "fuck you," and that's what it was here.
3. For me, Google is good for one thing and one thing only, and that's a good search engine. If everything else was taken away (yes, I'm including youtube, earth, and maps because those have gotten so broken that most of their features don't work on my particular browser configuration any more) the Internet would be a better place for me. Google's source of revenue is targetted advertising. Targetting means violating privacy, always. Given the extent to which Google's privacy violation creep has crept over the past 10 years, I'd be happy if Google just vanished entirely, and the spaced were filled by others.
So, fuck google glass. Fuck doubleclick. Fuck youtube's creepy-ass "suggested for you" videos distilled from some embedded thing that I was looking at on a site that I thought had nothing whatsoever to do with google or its vast network. Fuck google.
Maybe a hive-mind is the next step in human evolution. Always connected to everyone and the body of human knowledge.
1. They are not always recording
2. When they are recording or taking pictures, a bright LED on the front lets you know they're doing that.
3. Recording requires voice or hand gestures, easily noticeable to those around the user.
So either be scared of cellphones and camcorders, or get a new reason to hate Glass.
If we assume this is coming then its just a matter of waiting until us 30 somethings die. Then google will still be around and everyone will accept the new way of life. Think September 2001. I never would have thought people, even the proles, would have wanted the patriot act and other such nonsense but now the 3rd graders are adults and its for our own good.
What your rights are and what's socially acceptable are two different things. One right that you most definitely don't have in practice is to do whatever you feel like and be treated with social tolerance simply because your behaviour isn't actually illegal. If Google Glass ever actually makes it to market, I certainly wouldn't advise any male wearing a set to go stand outside a primary (US elementary) school at a busy time, for example - I give them 10 minutes tops before the police turn up (and potentially a VERY uncomfortable time once they do).
It seems like every other comment is saying something like "you better not record me or I'll punch you in the face". Why is it that the first reaction these people have is violence, instead of say, ignoring it, leaving the scene, politely asking the Glass user to stop, or even demanding that he stop? While your arguments against Glass may have merit, you're basically bringing it down to the level of "let's beat up that dorky kid with the glasses".
Because people fear change! A few years down the line everyone will have one or an iGlass. Personally I can't wait to have a go.
I've scanned the comments on here, given that a lot of opposition seems to consist of tinfoil hat wearers and conspiracy theory nuts (admittedly /. is a bit of a self selecting audience for this kind of thing), I don't think Google have too much to worry about.
... it's BOTH!! I can't stand how "liberals" and "conservatives" fight with each other and believe they are each right and the other is wrong, when neither side is more than HALF right. The mass media and special interests and Wall Street controlled multinational US corporations invading our puppet government (ultimately controlled by the PRIVATE Federal Reserve and politicians being such milk toast in the hands of the elite) and schools (both public and private) and TV shows, etc. have successfully changed our thinking, or rather narrowed it, and certainly eroded our collective critical thinking ability. We get into such frivolous arguments that reflect our worst fears (pervs -- which are often a scapegoat and straw man argument because their behavior is universally despised -- property rights -- which work more for the rich and powerful than the common people -- protection from the police -- don't forget the criminals want that, too -- the government writing laws and having access to military weapons -- wait! Private lobbyists and defense contractors have those things too!) ... we get so caught up in the frivolous that the REAL issues get buried. I wouldn't be surprised if some of the detractors on here, rather the DISTRACTORS, are GOOGLE EMPLOYEES. Prove to me that none of them are! At least they are Google worshippers who believe they couldn't live without Google's products. Even Google's main product, its search engine, has turned to crap as its squid-like arms have reached out and grabbed every other business it feels like while still controlling all of our search results. They may not "create" the information, but Google decides who will be at the top and who will be at the bottom of the search results. They also decide how they will use OUR information, OUR intellectual property rights, to financially benefit themselves and their "partners."
What we have is essentially Thomas Jefferson's, et al, worst fears coming true.
Google, go to hell! I don't want MY whereabouts being tracked by YOUR products that OTHERS around me are using against MY liberty and will, via facial recognition and GPS and transmitted to YOUR servers where you and your "partners" (whether government or public or private businesses) can use MY INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY (my identity, whereabouts, etc.) as you see fit. We all know what Apple did, and it took a huge lawsuit to make them "tame" their location database, but alas they still have one, and a very useful one at that. Google is becoming Apple. Both used to be good, but are turning evil, because our laws and system require them to serve themselves and their shareholders at any expense and above all else.
I'M NOT OKAY WITH THIS, GOOGLE!
GOOGLE, SIT DOWN AND BE QUIET!
WAKE UP, AMERICA!
I hate it for the same reason I hate Bitcoin. Because the tech sites (using the word in the loosest possible sense) WON'T BLOODY SHUT UP ABOUT IT.
Even though we know most people have a camera in their pockets all the time these days it is really annoying to have the camera in a ready to fire position at all times. Ever had the press come at you? Imagine any douche in the crowd can decide they want to record anything you do that they might find interesting without the obvious physical queues of pulling a camera out and raising a device. Sure these douches might have a red light on the thing so you can tell but ... do you check every crowd for anything red now?
Why buy these glasses? Lots cheaper just to have "I'm a dork" tattooed on your forehead and serves the same purpose. I guess the advantage of Google Glass is you can take them off when you're tired of everyone laughing at you.
Maybe people have change fatigue for the moment and are just tired of the onslaught of new interfaces.
I think Jeff Bezos at Amazon is the reason for all the hatred.
rather not have the beer.
Benefits and problems do not cancel each other out.
We don't need benefits. We can live fine without them. Benefits are nice to have but non-essential.
Problems? We can't handle more problems.
I don't even have to look at the Google glass comments
Google GLASS is NOT hated; it is DESPISED. .
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/despise
The affliction of Google Glass, is just to monitor people; and slashdot exposutlates felicity?
Get a grip you bunch of weasels'
If it were they'd already be lining up at the Apple stores waiting for launch day.
So, there are several very good reasons to not be especially delighted over Google Glass. Number one, it's an enabler for poor etiquette and behavior; ostensibly a person who is using it has a camera on their face at all times, no matter what they're doing. If you don't see a social implication with this, you're not thinking hard enough. Two, it's a reminder of horribly self-absorbed, desperate-for-adulation people who are a wreck and need a device on their face to feel good about themselves. Every person I know who buys an iPhone every year does it not because they need one but because they want a feel-good purchase. It reminds me of one of the last things I did before finally deactivating my Facebook account for good - practically all of my news feed was coming from members of my "friends" list who were in mid-life crises or were attention addicts. When I disabled their posts from my news feed, I stopped getting ANYTHING. These are the types of people who want Google Glass.
You can't build a constructive, intellectual society by focusing on "OMG, look at me". Google Glass caters to desperate people. We already have devices that can surf the net, take pictures, and allow us to communicate in all sorts of ways - a smartphone. And when you're not using it, put it in your pocket or purse and go on with your life if you have one. And if you don't have one, go get one. Don't stick a camera on your face.
The Internet was designed to exchange information, not to wear information.
Now with less G and L.
Glass isn't some fashion statement, or lack there of. Glass isn't some bodily extension or prosthetic. Glass isn't a spy device. It's not a window into another world. While I think some can certainly argue that it can be and/or is all of these things, to me these miss the point. It's a freaking TOOL! Like a phone, or a hammer, a wrench, a cup, a plate, a knife. They have a purpose; whatever you might want that to be at the time. To me it's a tool. You use it to do things to make your life more convenient. It's not some 'cool look at me thing'. If you're using it for that, you're doing it wrong! Also, why in the hell should anyone care or be so judgmental on the likes and dislikes of others? Not enough of a life of your own that you must pass judgment or live vicariously? get off it already...
1. I already have glasses, which means I can't use google glasses 2. It can be used by creepy stalkers and pedo's taking pictures and video.
I don't believe that all the people talking about privacy are infected with the "boy calling wolf" syndrome. There are just so many things that we do that is perfectly legal but we still ask for privacy. Even a walk in the woods will have the most chauvinistic male haul himself off to a private corner for a piss or a shit. He wants his privacy, so why is my wish feed pigeons or talk to my favorite plant in the park any less of a need. Yeah my friends will laugh and and I really couldn't live it down but shouldn't I be entitled to my privacy? Who should decide what actions are not private enough not to be recorded? Should I tell you that I am in witness protection and you shouldn't take my picture?
For me privacy is important but so is choice. when someone raises a camera, I can say "let me get out of the way", I often have a choice that Google glass won't give. the argument that you will know when someone is recording because of people touching the side of the glass, looking up or a blue light when on record can be dealt with in one word "HACK". Glass runs on an OS, an open OS, it can be hacked it has been hacked. Just do a net search, all these functions have already been eliminated in a rooted device.
The real problem in my opinion is the pervert who no longer needs to lift a camera to take shot of your elementary child but he just needs to walk by and look in his direction to feed his fantasy. And please don't tell me about making it illegal for some people to own. Only law abiding citizens obey the law, or is it those who don't know better? not sure.
They need to give free sets to the relevant reviewers. Their initial program of competition for a chance to buy failed. They inadvertently alienated all the reviewers who wanted one by making them part of the "out" group.
I believe Google Glass can replace TV in future
Casteism
It's the WallStreet guys.. They want to make a lot of money on Google shares.
Are you looking at me?
Are YOU looking at ME?
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