What do you plan to do with Glass that makes it worth the $1500?
If you didn't get an invite, did you want one? Why or why not?
Do you think this will be the revolutionary game-changer Google hopes it will be? Or will it be yet another of Google's poorly managed betas that ultimately stifle and kill the end product?
I'm super interested to see what the societal reaction to Glass is. I think there will be heavy social resistance at first so I would be hesitant to be an early adopter, but I feel that long-term most people will adopt it (or a similar technology).
I'm with you on this one; there's already a lot of talk online about social exclusion of Glass wearers. It's another neophobe vs. neophiles thing. New technologies change society in ways we can't predict, and that's either exciting or terrifying depending on how you view it.
Not a fan, and I hope my favorite establishments ban the wearing of them. I'd prefer not to be recorded or "life casted" by someone wearing Google Glasses while I'm just hanging out with my friends and having some drinks. Also don't want some creepers walking around malls recording/creeping on girls be they my fiancee or my niece. We got creeper shot phone pics all over the internet, $10 we got creeper videos all over the net once these things drop. I don't like the privacy implications of these, and unfortunately I don't even have to have a Goolge Glass myself to experience that. I just have to be in the same room with someone wearing them and that makes me uncomfortable.
I agree with most of your points. Google Glass will open up a pandoras box of privacy concerns and litigations. It should make for an interesting transition in society. Could it be that entire nations will end up banning them while others fully embrace? Might become a societal tipping point? One for the history books, no doubt.
I'm in Canada, we never get to have fun things first.
I can understand not wanting it for yourself, but why does this extend to your friends? I'm going to guess the privacy issues some people seem to be so up in arms about?
It would taint interactions with them even more directly than smartphones already do. Also, see this related hubski post: Mark Hurst: The Google Glass feature no one is talking about
I'd use it as a permanent camera affixed to my head. Basically I'd record every day of my life, since my memory is terrible, so I'd just rely on that. I suppose it'd be really helpful to preemptively organize and make notes for every video on what I did so I could easily search through it if I ever needed to recall something in detail. Although in reality, I wouldn't pay that much for it. And I personally don't like Google and the Internet's snooping as it is, so there's the whole privacy angle to it too. I would only have wanted an invite if they gave me one for free to test it out or something. I wouldn't want an invite to buy it early, especially when I'm positive that if it does well, there'll be a better version in three years tops for half the price. Maybe another company will release their own version with better stuff... Hey, there is Baidu eye already in the works: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-22013676 As for revolutionary, I suspect it might do well if the price goes down. I remember when the iphone was announced that there was a decent amount of skepticism on the net in regards to its success, and well, look how it's doing now. Who knows?