The Google Glass Feature No One is Talking About

Possible future?<p>June 2014: Google Glass released to the public.<p>Dec 2014: First face recognition app released.<p>May 2015: App to detect "dateability" with strangers reaches #1 on the appstores.<p>Nov 2015: Trend among girls to apply make-up that makes Glass' face recognition fail.<p>Apr 2016: Updated algorithm and use of IR-spectrum now greatly improves face recognition capabilities.<p>Aug 2016: Three women killed by stalker equipped with Google Glass<p>Oct 2016: Prototype IR-lamp for mounting on Google Glass also works by blinding any onlooking cameras, making face recognition impossible again. It's now easy to film others while avoid being filmed yourself.<p>Feb 2017: New Glass version includes upgraded sensor, that can filter out selected spectrums. Weeks later, the major face recognition library updates with support, able to block out "blinding lights".<p>July 2017: Malware discovered on many Glasses, which can spread by WiFi and automatically blurs recorded faces. Security researchers find that it also is able to send back the actual face recognition data to secret servers in Iceland.<p>Nov 2017: New e-inkpaint makes it possible to create pulsating patterns that disturbs or even crashes Glasses that look at them. A celebrity vlogger is seen wearing it.

The article sounds a bit paranoid, and too much conspiracy theoretical near the end. I mean, sure, it's possible we will eventually be able to build some device into ourselves, but why does it have to be nefarious? Are computers evil?<p>I bet in the 60ies (or whenever the general public became aware of computers) they were saying that computers will be used for war, espionage and other malice. Were they right? Yes! But is that the whole truth? No, it's a very small portion of it.<p>The author (and people) need to stop thinking of our world as the darkest place in this universe.<p>If anything, the human race will meet its end when cats decide they don't want servants any longer. Meow.

This article starts off promising, with valid complaints about the "antidote to distraction" idea and the perils of being recorded, but then derails into paranoia. "Anything you say" might well end up on YouTube, but it's not going to be "tagged to your online identity, and stored in Google's search index", in order to "instantly bring up documentation of every word you’ve ever spoken within earshot of a Google Glass device." Such a feature would provide no benefit for the person taking the video in the first place, and would, of course, cause an uproar if ever introduced, so it's ridiculous to believe Google would introduce it just because they're working on a HUD. At worst Google might (might! it would still creep a lot of people out) introduce a search-by-face option for YouTube, but it would still presumably be limited to videos people explicitly decided to upload... <i>maybe</i> the ability to search by text at the same time? I'm not seeing it.

I was talking about this the other day. Easily irritated people are definitely aware the detrimental effect google glass will have on their bullshit tolerance.

Double-win: Riding a Segway while wearing Google glasses.

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