Not ready to evolve into homo matrixens quite yet.
And to the people who are going to say, "then dont use it," I counteroffer the fact that--at least where I live--there is a damned-if-you-do-damned-if-you-don't aspect to phone use. You will be socially isolated if you don't conform, especially if you are a teenager. Tech evolves faster than our minds, morals and laws can handle. I dont think humanity is ready to jump into fully immersive screenlife quite yet, and I fear Apple makes things sexy enough to be the ones to kick us down that well.
Yeah, but I don't think anyone is going to be using these in public (and if they are, it will be super easy to punk them).
Now, I'm not stupid. The moment people saw AI generated art as art, something fundenmentally changed: no longer were these impregnable objects that infinitely aroused our aesthetic sensibilities containing something within them we might call "human." It was just machines, machines that could appear confusing and scary to us, in a way that has started to feel overwhelming.
The world is turning, but what will end first, the concept of humanity, or humanity itself?
I'm not sure they will be used in public; I'm just worried about the eventual "killer app" that has no one going out in public ever again. That's part of the problem, as I see it.
I think that's more of Meta's approach. Apple seems to be aiming for something a bit more like Dennou Coil, where the virtual coexists with real things rather than being an either/or.
And to the people who are going to say, "then dont use it," I counteroffer the fact that--at least where I live--there is a damned-if-you-do-damned-if-you-don't aspect to phone use. You will be socially isolated if you don't conform, especially if you are a teenager. Tech evolves faster than our minds, morals and laws can handle. I dont think humanity is ready to jump into fully immersive screenlife quite yet, and I fear Apple makes things sexy enough to be the ones to kick us down that well.