[DANmode]

> 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.

[JKCalhoun]

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.)