[turing]

I'm inclined to disagree. When I'm in class or working and I receive a notification I almost always check it. In most cases I wouldn't say that this is because I'm "addicted," but rather because I have a class of notifications that need to be handled quickly (job and fellowship applications, questions from my boss or the PI in my lab, etc). Most of the time I end up pulling my phone out and seeing that it's just a dumb text message or an email from a mailing list. With Glass I would be able to immediately see if any given notification was something that needed my attention.

[jimbobimbo]

From my experience, anything that comes as email or text is rarely urgent as we might think it is. If something is really serious, it's either you are working as 911 operator :) or people will call or come in person. You might disagree, of course, but wait 'till you enter the workforce and see how'd you deal with an endless stream of "OMG! Super urgent!" emails.