Life through gross tinted glasses
I have just been reading about Google’s Goggles.
Are they fucking serious?
Do they really think we cannot function unless we are permanently hooked up to the Interweb and we have to share every waking moment with our friends?
I suppose there would be a point if we were all ballet dancers, stunt pilots or hot air balloonists, but we’re not. We live ordinary mundane lives and do ordinary mundane things all day, every day.
“Hey John! What are you up to?”
“Hi Frank! I have just done an enormous shit. Wanna see?” [“glass – take photo”].
“Wow! That’s awesome! I’m on the 45 bus” [“glass – send video”]
“Awesome!”
I cannot imagine anything more tedious than having to watch someone else’s experiences all the time. It would only be beaten by them having to watch my life.
And then there is the other aspect.
I am driving along minding my own business and some fucker drives head-on into me because he has been too busy watching his mates’ antics while he drives. Do I want to live in a world where people only devote a quarter of their attention to what they are supposed to be doing?
It’s bad enough now that we have to be constantly on the lookout for some cunt filming us on their mobile phones but these glasses will make it ten times worse.
I suppose there is an upside though?
If I come across someone in a compromising situation, all I have to do is say “glass – take video and share with the world”.
That would soften their cough.
You really don't spend much time on facebook do you. People seem to be compelled to share where they are, what they are eating, what movie they just saw, who they are sleeping with, who they just broke up with, the surgical procedure they just had, in short every minute detail of their boring lives.
Indeed I avoid Facebook and Twitter for that very reason.
"I am now watching Eastenders" Big deal, you boring little twat.
What worries me is that so many people seem to be hooked up into this inane shallow world. Do all those hundreds of thousands of years of evolution really lead to this?
Too right GD. I never have and never will even look at Facebook or Twitter. They are a serious waste of cyberspace with no purpose other than personal self-agrandisement. What's wrong with actually meeting people and talking to them?
Wouldn't be so bad if there was porn in it.
Damn! Now I'm going to have to worry the the pilot of my next flight could be watching Busty Bertha's Bedtime Antics when he should be landing the plane?
Loada Shite…..gimme Beer Goggles any day. They make everything look great, even herself and they don't cost that much.
Now you're talking my language. Spectacles are for looking through and glasses are for pints.
more annoying than hipsters i may have to start swerving onto sidewalks and winging people
There is the one great consolation that half these "glass" wearers will neatly cull themselves by stepping under busses? Darwin wins again.
As for me, I gave up on fucking facebook and never did tweet. What's the point? I am about ready to trash this whole interweb thing and go for a bike ride or walk. You're my last hope, GD.
There was news report I read some time ago about a blind man who was wearing an experimental apparatus that allowed him to "see" shapes and shadows of different light intensities (worn like glasses) that got punched in the face by some guy who thought he was wearing those new things called Google Glasses and was "taking pictures of him". Now why do I think that isn't going to be some isolated incident?