Well, eventually the author may have to get one if this succeeds. There is quite a strong social pressure for people to get mobile phones, Facebook, whatever.
Just imagine the conversation starting with we do our company staff meetings daily using Hangouts on Glass, and everybody is expected to join...
It's worse than that. They fear that other people will want to get one. As with the hysterical reaction to the Galaxy Note (people desperately falling over themselves to tell everyone that it is a compensation for penis size), this is someone who decided to be anti-Google, and from that their every "judgment" is predictable.
Just imagine the conversation starting with we do our company staff meetings daily using Hangouts on Glass, and everybody is expected to join...