Sergey Brin emasculated after HORROR smartphone disaster Seething mass of testosterone and Google co-founder Sergey Brin has stated that smartphones are emasculating. Speaking at the Technology, Education and Design TED conference series on the subject of Google Glasses and the future of Google, Brin let drop that he finds the fastest growing technology of the past decade to be " …
"Brin's remedy for the manhood-stripping mobes, of course, was Google's own augmented reality glasses - Google Glass - which has tiny computers bolted onto its frame and leaves your hands free."
Which will make you totally look like a techno-nerd (to ordinary folks, anyway).
So that's really going to help, yes?
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...and while you think they are making eye contact and listening to you, they are pulling turnips in farmville.
Any technology can be anti-social. The only solution is an agreement on social etiquette. Unless talking while using your tech becomes as anti-social as blowing smoke in someones face then it's not going to go away regardless of the platform or form you're using.
Okay, Glass is a good idea. Technology as we know will slowly dissolve becoming more and more seamless with our lives. This is the first step from Google and it's pretty adventurous and more importantly, it works!
If this does indeed double as a mobile, then searching for contacts could be interesting, but when integrated with Google contacts using an online account, it could work well.
It does look rather geeky, but lets be honest, the technology will shrink in time.
Glass is a statement, a brave new world awaits and this is the start.
As far as the 'emasculating' statement goes... Well, that won't come back to haunt Mr. Brin... will it?!
He's excited, who can blame him, it is really cool! - Just don't wear them trying to pick up women.
This tech reminds me in some ways of bluetooth handsfree ear pieces. People used to walk around talking into them not realising that to everyone else they looked either mad and / or a colossal dickhead. If their intent was to look cool, it failed badly.
I think these glasses will convey the same effect only more so since it's not just sound but vision too. Who really wants to engage someone in conversation who is wearing these? Are they filming you while you speak to them? Are they even paying attention to their surroundings or the email they just got? Maybe they're ogling you through some augmented reality dong / boobies app? How great would that be? Not great in the slightest. In terms of social acceptance I think these things will rank somewhere between strong body odour and Tourette's syndrome.
At least with a phone you can see them fiddly with it and know their attention is diverted.
The tech could be extremely useful in lots of scenarios where sociality is not necessary (e.g. Amazon warehouse staff could use the glasses as a HUD to fulfill orders faster). but I think the picture painted by Google so far is totally unrealistic. Who knows where it may end, but so far I'm not hugely impressed.
I like people with bluetooth headsets. It lets you play the "crazy or on the phone" game.
If you see somebody in the supermarket late at night having an argument with the carrots you have to guess if they are crazy or not before you are allowed to look for the headset.
Oh the irony, Google have no vision at all which must be why they are pushing glasses.
Everything Google have done so far has been a copy of something else that already existed or has been predicted in sci-fi of the past.
Google glass is a geek toy and nothing more. You will look like a right plum wearing them, even worse than those awful bluetooth headsets.
If you want to do something like a heads up display then you need to do it without forcing the user to wear something or use something to see it.
Touch screen devices were hampered by styluses, preventing mass market adoption and Google glass is hampered by the need to have stupid looking glasses on your face.
"If you want to do something like a heads up display then you need to do it without forcing the user to wear something or use something to see it."
Just how do you suppose that is meant to be achievable...a HUD is a projection on "something" unless you were maybe expecting a free-floating hologram?
quote: "Touch screen devices were hampered by styluses, preventing mass market adoption and Google glass is hampered by the need to have stupid looking glasses on your face."
Yeah, but installing cybereyes lowers your Essence, not to mention being much more expensive, and they don't have many upgrade slots.
Also I don't think they've actually invented cybereyes IRL yet. I think we might be stuck with needing glasses for AR for a while :/
If friends of mine weren't so set on breaking any system they come across, I'd still be playing it. Gun bunny is one thing, but a 19-dice rifle pool on a starting character (and<5 dice everything else)? That's barely even 1-dimensional :(
Still, it means I get to try out quite a few different systems and see just how breakable (or not) they are... ;)
I for one agree, just because you’re a ‘Geek’ or an evolved man as I so often hear should not should mean you have to shed you masculinity as so many males have these days.
I for one am sicken at the sight of young men standing around in bars in London wearing tight trousers and expensive shirts, foundling their mobile phones instead of talking to women as if the mobile phone is now their USP.
It’s a sickening sight, no wonder the divorce rate is so high, when these boys have forgotten how to be masculine, just look at the amount of money men now spend on hair gel.
(Oh well, I also blame the tidal wave of cheap & camp TV shows for that).
I have even seen these ‘men’ when faced with fights, raise their mobile phones to their ear rather that put their fists up.
Who would have imaged 5 years ago that a man would actually want a to own ‘white phone’.
The corporate marketing machine have done their jobs well to dumb men down to point were there is hardly any boundary between men and women.
So I say good to you, for saying how it is, as the truth hurts and often offends.
When I was a boy, we didn't have these fancy tight pants, or shirts, or hair. At all! And if we were lucky enough to have hair we certainly wouldn't put such a thing as gel in it! We used pomade. And we liked it damnit!
We had to walk 15 miles in a blizzard to go the drug store payphone to make a phone call. For a PENNY!! There was none of this new fangled devilry these damn kids call mobile phones. And there was only one phone color, black. Those were the days. And Men were MEN back then, I tell you!
If it's manliness we're after, Google needs to customize an NFL helmet. Some models already have radio built in (as for the the quarterback), some I think have plexiglass visors (as for linemen who need to protect their eyes from other linemen's fingers, all made since the late 1950s have various bars in front that could accommodate electronics. Nothing says stud quite like a Ravens/49ers/Cowboys helmet.
Of course, that's with the full uniform of pads, cleats, etc. Worn with say the Steve Jobs turtleneck and jeans, nothing says dork (or even mentally unbalanced) quite like that same helmet.
Hey guess what Sir-gay,
YOUR ANDROID SMARTPHONE seems to be the Phone that the majority of penny pinching mobe owners are "hunched over" and being "emasculated" with. But you probably missed that while getting high and playing with your overhyped, over priced smart glasses. Ironic that your SMARTPHONES are particularly in the lead in developing countries where people can't afford your fancy glasses. Get over yourself. No one is falling for your word games and shelling out piles of cash for your POS glasses.
humans evolved conversation because they couldnt understand why the early days of humans involved 100% rape. we were all just rapin' apes. raping someone was like saying hello, because we hadn't figured out how to say hello yet.
why can't we go back to the good old days?
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