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by formaldehyde 4349 days ago
I think this blog post does a great job at putting the evolution of technology into perspective. It's a reminder that when "now old" technologies, ones that are fully integrated into our lives today, were first introduced everyone didn't immediately accept them. Facebook is the perfect example as used in this blog post. And microwaves, could we really imagine our lives without them? I don't think so. But once we remember how reluctant society initially was to accept these into our world, it shows hope for the future of wearables. While reading this post I felt nostalgic as I remembered when Facebook came out and how hesitant I was to create a profile that has so much personal information on it. And today, I can't live without it. I truly believe in only a few years everyone will associate such nostalgia with the evolution of wearables. I don't understand why people think wearables are only for "geeks," as stated in the post. I see wearable technology as an extremely enhanced version of smartphones. We didn't stop at the creation of the "flip-phone" what makes people think we'll stop at smartphones. Wearables are what's next.