One word: pretentious. The article. Google Glass. All of it. I'll be interested when that is no longer true (at least for glass, it's too late for the article).
When I think of a World of Glass I always go back to Corning's A Day Made of Glass http://youtu.be/6Cf7IL_eZ38 which has far more every day examples we can all believe in
When early adopters try to get other people to understand why they like some new product and think it will catch on, it will, by definition, always be pretentious.
Maybe you shouldn't read articles about new products, if they anger you so much.