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by jpalomaki 15 days ago
Not sure if this is the future I want, but I've always thought the main idea of smart glasses is to automatically bring up information that is relevant in your current context. One part of this is to recognize who you are staring at.
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It worked well for the Terminator, so why shouldn't it work for us too? Being able to identify target/foe is of course how this will be used.

However, I'd be much more inclined for the Black Mirror use of being able to block someone literally not just a number in your phone.

I have some vague recollection of a sketch where the user walks around and gets popups and ads in his glasses and later removes them to discover there is a calm city life around him. Was that Black Mirror?
That sounds like the Chappelle sketch "The Internet in Real Life"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4WuNU_0e5c

Yep, there's a anime called I think it's the Eden of the East, which explores this as a key motivating technology in the story.
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