Google: Project Glasses

In case some of you haven't seen this yet:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9c6W4CCU9M4

This is apparently a project under development at Google. Pretty crazy heh?

I will only use this product if somebody makes a mod which gives you Terminator vision...

how about x-ray vision

I can just imagine all the car accidents...

What car accidents? No one's going to be driving anymore. Google will drive for us!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdgQpa1pUUE

watokala wrote:

how about x-ray vision

What kind of X-ray vision?

See people's viscera and bones x-ray vision, or just see through people's clothes x-ray vision?

Still it probably doesn't matter, Terminator vision would be preferable.

I find this scary

It's the future. A lot of science fiction movies or books have this kind of technology in it. Personally, I can't wait for it to be a reality.

Oh yes, and indeed they add fluff and flavor to any sci-fi, but RL has a way of showing us the repercussions of said technologies that we don't consider in fiction. As wonderful as technology is, it often distances people from one another, making them into self sufficient islands. No time to stop, think, imagine, everything is already provided and we are constantly being bombarded with all sorts of input. Not that I can live without that bombardment. Its just a bit scary to know we will eventually be completely dependent on it.

Fuzzy Wolf wrote:

Its just a bit scary to know we will eventually be completely dependent on it.

We're already there I think. It's just going to get worse. I'm sure some people would still be able to function without advanced technology, medicine, etc. However society would almost definitely collapse, in my opinion.

As for the glasses, I think it's pretty awesome.

Wumpix wrote:

Fuzzy Wolf wrote:

Its just a bit scary to know we will eventually be completely dependent on it.

We're already there I think. It's just going to get worse. I'm sure some people would still be able to function without advanced technology, medicine, etc. However society would almost definitely collapse, in my opinion.

As for the glasses, I think it's pretty awesome.

First world countries would collapse, third world and maybe some 2nd world countries wouldn't even notice a change.

Fuzzy Wolf wrote:

Oh yes, and indeed they add fluff and flavor to any sci-fi, but the RL has a way of showing us the repercussions of said technologies that we don't consider in fiction. As wonderful as technology is, it often groups and distances people from one another, making them into self sufficient islands. No time to stop, think, imagine, everything is already provided and we are constantly being bombarded with all sorts of input. Not that can live without said bombardment. Its just a bit scary to know we will eventually be completely dependent on it.

I don't know about that, no doubt some technologies have had unexpected side effects, but I find that people often see degradation in place of change. I don't feel like technology is making the world worse, but it is transforming it so rapidly now that what was once familiar and comforting is now outmoded and even obsolete. Any user of technology is dependent upon that technology, and that's the way it's been from the get go as I see it. Take a spear away from a cave man, and he's gonna have a touch time hunting down elk with bare hands. Take domesticated animals away from early agrarian societies, and they will be hard pressed to raise crops, or go back to using spears to hunt elk for that matter. Take matches away from most folk these days, and they can't make a fire in the wild. Essentially, one of the most fundamental aspects of technology is that it transforms its users, encourages them to develop new skills and to jettison others, to adapt and apply technology in ways which necessarily leave that user vulnerable without the tools they have shaped their lives around.

So yeah, we're already dependent on everything we have, I feel like the impression that it's becoming more acute is illusory, although it's hard to avoid since the pace of change is so rapid that we see technology transforming us within the space of our own lifetimes, indeed within only a few years.

Ophrys wrote:

First world countries would collapse, third world and maybe some 2nd world countries wouldn't even notice a change.

I'm fairly sure that they would notice it in a big way. In parts of Africa, people use prepaid mobile phone credits as currency, just for example.