I, Glasshole: My Year With Google Glass
J Thoendell stashed this in Tech
Source: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2013/12/g...
Glass is socially awkward. Again and again, I made people very uncomfortable. That made me very uncomfortable.
People get angry at Glass. They get angry at you for wearing Glass. They talk about you openly. It inspires the most aggressive of passive aggression. Bill Wasik refers apologetically to the Bluedouche principle. But nobody apologizes in real life. They just call you an asshole.
Wearing Glass separates you. It sets you apart from everyone else. It says you not only had $1,500 to plunk down to be part of the “explorer” program, but that Google deemed you special enough to warrant inclusion (not everyone who wanted Glass got it; you had to be selected). Glass is a class divide on your face.
Stashed in: Google FAIL, Virtual Reality!
Before Christmas, I had the $1500, after..not so much. Also, Google didn't deign to include me, I would have gotten an invite through a friend of a friend who was warranted.
The price will come down as they're ready for Google Glass to be used by more people.
They're using the price to temper the demand.
Glass kind of made me hate my phone — or any phone. It made me realize how much they have captured our attention. Phones separate us from our lives in all sorts of ways. Here we are together, looking at little screens, interacting (at best) with people who aren’t here. Looking at our hands instead of each other. Documenting instead of experiencing.
Glass sold me on the concept of getting in and getting out. Glass helped me appreciate what a monster I have become, tethered to the thing in my pocket. I’m too absent. Can yet another device make me more present? Or is it just going to be another distraction? Another way to stare off and away from the things actually in front of us, out into the electronic ether? I honestly have no idea.
Glass reinforces -- and encourages -- the culture of distraction:
9:38 AM Dec 31 2013