“In its favor, if Google Glass didn’t exist, all these Silicon Valley guys would be having affairs or buying unsuitable motorbikes”.
Personally, I agree with Sergey Brin. Thanks to the smartphone, we never look up anymore . We stare at a small screen at every opportunity and thus lose contact with physical reality. It is not without reason that Jaap Bloem and myself devote extensive attention to the disruptive effect of the smartphone in the trend report ‘ The Dark Side of Social Media ‘. At the end of this report, we outline a way out in which calm technology largely solves the above problems. I wonder whether Google Glass will live up list to data to this promise. Will everyone soon be walking around with such glasses or is it only intended for hardcore nerds? This weeken
Does Google Glass make you macho?
Sergey Brin recently took the TED stage. In an unexpected performance, he talked about the big idea behind Google Glass. Brin sees the current generation of smartphones as a burden, rather than a pleasure. The device continually fragments our attention. He wonders if these devices are the way to communicate with other people. Brin even claims that the device takes away our masculinity:
“Is this the way you’re meant to interact with other people? Is the future of connection just people walking around hunched up, looking down, rubbing a featureless piece of glass? […] It’s kind of emasculating. Is this what you’re meant to do with your body? You want something that will free your eyes.”
Night Live also paid extensive attention to the phenomenon. Of course, Google Glass was thoroughly ridiculed. It showed how macho Google Glass makes you…
Is Google Glass the next big thing?
Robert Scoble, Alexander Klöpping and many others refer to Google Glass as the new iPhone. The glasses evoke the same feelings as when Steve Jobs himself introduced the very first iPhone. The question is whether nerds like Robert Scoble will irreparably damage the image of Google Glass. Wired Magazine even devoted an clean email entire article “ Guys Like This Could Kill Google Glass Before It Ever Gets Off the Ground ” to this question. In the article, Google Glass is compared to, among other navigating regulatory labyrinths compliance in specialized lead generation things, the Segway, a device that also never really got off the ground. A comparison that Scoble obviously does not agree with .