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| Google Glass: The opposition grows quote:
"Stop The Cyborgs" is a new site that attempts to bring a balanced trepidation to the unbalanced idea that we'll all be walking round with Google's outer brain strapped to our faces.
»news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-575746···n-grows/
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Madison, WI | Well atleast it's giving the crazies something to focus on instead of being crazy around me. |
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Nos. 1-34 = 34 |
"Thirty-Five Arguments Against Google Glass"
In argument 19 they charge Google Glass with
"It will discourage people from paying attention.
Either I'm already not paying enough attention or they have preexisting attention issues not attributable to Google Glass because I only see thirty-four arguments not thirty-five as their homepage claims.
»stopthecyborgs.org/
Where's the 35th argument? |
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Ummm... why do people object to Google Glasses? Is this like the sneering that went on when people first got cell phones? And when people first got smart phones? |
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| » Google Glass has some major privacy and legal issues
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I don't see how it's diff than having a smart phone with you. |
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| Well if I point a smartphone at you you'll know I'm taking pics. If I look at you you may not.
(All of which is discussed, at length, in the thread I posted the link to above).
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Because way too many people think they're oh so interesting to everyone else, and they're deathly afraid of being made to look like anything less than the magnificent beings they consider themselves to be... reality be damned.
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said by StuartMW:Well if I point a smartphone at you you'll know I'm taking pics. If I look at you you may not.
So your argument is about product design? (arguably a form of art).
"Suppress art, be free!"
That's a tough rallying call.
said by StuartMW:(All of which is discussed, at length, in the thread I posted the link to above).
Hmm, then why did you start a new thread if not for discussion within it? |
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said by beck:Ummm... why do people object to Google Glasses? Is this like the sneering that went on when people first got cell phones? And when people first got smart phones?
I don't remember any sneering, but I gotta say cellphones and smart phones are often overused to the point of abuse, and it's getting worse instead of better. So this may not be the analogy you want to use. |
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said by Snowy:said by StuartMW:Well if I point a smartphone at you you'll know I'm taking pics. If I look at you you may not.
So your argument is about product design? (arguably a form of art). " Suppress art, be free!"That's a tough rallying call. Ban shoe cameras!
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said by Snowy:So your argument is about product design? If you insist.
Up until recently if someone wearing glasses looked at me I'd think nothing of it. No one had to wonder if they were being recorded etc.
People have been wearing glasses/spectacles/etc for centuries. It used to be they did so to aid their vision or more recently to reduce UV (sunglasses).
No longer is that the case. Glasses are now a recording device so the wearer can record you (without your knowledge or consent) then upload it to EweToob. I consider that a privacy issue but obviously many don't.
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said by beck:I don't see how it's diff than having a smart phone with you.
And a lot of us don't want smart phones - as noted already - at least with a smart phone I will generally know if I am being recorded. With more and more employers going online to see about job candidates - I would have even less control of what is on the web about me. I currently protect that a good bit - even on FB.
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said by StuartMW: Glasses are now a recording device so the wearer can record you (without your knowledge or consent) then upload it to EweToob. I consider that a privacy issue but obviously many don't.
I'd be pissed if I was surreptitiously recorded during a moment not intended for an upload to anywhere.
It's not as if I'd be an innocent bystander though.
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| said by Snowy:Google Glass doesn't create anything - True enough concealed camera have been around since, well, Candid Camera. The difference, which obviously many miss, is that such a camera is concealed in a common and mobile device (glasses). One can literally be anywhere and be viewed/recorded. In the past there were some, if not always respected, limits. Not anymore.
Welcome to the "brave new world".
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You stick your right foot out & shake it all around that's what it's all about...
Been years since...  |
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said by beck:Ummm... why do people object to Google Glasses? Is this like the sneering that went on when people first got cell phones? And when people first got smart phones?
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Apart from the camera/privacy issues, I'm waiting for some clown wearing these things to come flying through somebody's windshield as he walks zombie-like right into a stream of traffic whilst watching some... uhmm... "stimulating" subject material. That should lead to a few interesting lawsuits. And we thought texting could be bad for public safety...
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said by StuartMW:No longer is that the case. Glasses are now a recording device so the wearer can record you (without your knowledge or consent) then upload it to EweToob. I consider that a privacy issue but obviously many don't.
If you're doing something that will be 1) Embarrassing or incriminating and 2) is interesting enough to be posted on YouTube,
then perhaps you should ask yourself if you should be carrying out that type of behavior in public (or period).
Having been threatened with violence more then once when I observed criminal activity happening and then attempted to take pictures of it, I'd personally like the option to record and photograph people inconspicuously if needed.
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