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by tushar-r 30 days ago
It's interesting that people seem to have forgotten/gotten over the whole Glasshole "rejection/anger" against Google glasses ~10years ago. Maybe it would have been more socially acceptable even back then if they hadn't made them look sci-fi and instead like regular glasses.

Or is it just that we haven't seen Scoble using these in the shower? :-D [1]

[1] https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/jwherrman/yes-you-can-w...
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DANmode 30 days ago
> Maybe it would have been more socially acceptable even back then if they hadn't made them look sci-fi and instead like regular glasses.

They literally couldn’t.

Glass cost $1,500 and had tech spilling out into separate modules attached to the (already too clunky) glasses.

It’ll be interesting to see how quickly the problem is dropped by society at large because the hardware has become too subtle to notice,

and the “superpowers” (or draw of entertainment) are too strong to ignore.

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JKCalhoun 30 days ago
I think it was an old issue of National Lampoon (and I have no idea what they would be parodying) that showed an old-timey cathedral-style radio in a child's pull-wagon, like some kind of advert from the 1920's. "Portable Radio is Here!" or similar for the caption…

(Sometimes you have to recognize that the tech is not ready for the intended form factor.)

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someonebaggy 30 days ago
It was 10 years ago. Today's preteens were infants then. Today's university students were preteens. Today's parents of infants were university students. Things change. Time destroys everything.
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Leonard_of_Q 30 days ago
> Time destroys everything.

...which has not been declared taboo through religious or cultural institutions. Time for those institutions to step up and declare a ban on networked surveillance devices. As long as the processing is all local and none of the gathered intel is shipped out to the mothership or the highest bidder (viz. Gargoyles from Snow Crash) they're fine but it should be legal to punch anyone in the nose who wears corporate spy-eyes.

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someonebaggy 30 days ago
Many religious and cultural institutions are also dead.
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