I drink mine right out the bottle!!!
Posted on 01/16/2015 9:19:42 AM PST by SeekAndFind
The money quote:
“Google Glass was just plain creepy.”
duh.
I worked on a military base and one of the contractors was wearing them as part of a test project. He got in a lot of trouble. It surprised everyone but me.
Something happened on facebook that really gave me the creeps a few months ago. I posted a picture and it didn’t just ask me if I wanted to tag people. It accurately guessed who they were. Imagine Google glass telling me who everyone around me is as I walk down the street. I can then do all sorts of searches on all of them as I walk by.
I used to say that technology changes as much in five years as it used to change in five generations, but it is moving exponentially faster.
Where does that leave mere men when it is changing that much in five minutes? Can any human culture survive? Amd when will that breaking point come?
We will need Angels surrounding us.
Yesterday the whitehouse posted a photo of the cockpit of Marine 1 in flight. I can’t help but wonder how much security info was freely given to the world with that photo.
Well this iteration is dead. Because this iteration kind of sucked. Being nothing more than an additional interface for the cellphone just is not the killer app. Add the fact that it couldn’t be coupled with real glasses, and the non-hinged earpiece and what you’ve here is a bad product.
Somebody will fix that though. There will (at some point) be a version that IS the cellphone, and goes with real glasses. It’s an inevitable development.
Not to worry – Cupertino will refine the concept & release a robotic presence, whereupon it will receive universal acclaim ......
Yes, FB has had integrated facial recognition technology for sometime.
Iirc they bought it COTS from an Israeli company. And the Israelis are, for obvious reasons, on the bleeding edge of that tech.
The platform may be dead but the concept certainly is not. If anything it will get smaller and less easy to spot. You have a cellphone sticking up out of your pocket and maybe a wristwatch repeater and an earbud, and with the right app you’re good to go. No dorky glasses involved. I’m not saying it’s a good thing, I’m saying it’s an inevitable thing.
facial recognition technology is pretty stunning
I once interviewed for a company that was making a cool project in Buffalo, NY- i was amazed at what they could do with it
They could pick out a face in the crowd at an airport - and this was almost 10 years ago
“Imagine Google glass telling me who everyone around me is as I walk down the street. I can then do all sorts of searches on all of them as I walk by.”
You know what is scarier than that?
NYC already has networked all their surveillance cameras together with pattern recognition software. Right now they can already track people around the city in this system by license plate, but soon enough, they will be able to do the same with facial recognition.
But the software is getting so good I'm gonna need to get the dark lens version
10 years from now a large percentage of people will be wearing such devices.
Google glass as it is today will look like a 1995 mobile phone to us.
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It’s one reason I’m kinda glad my state requires only a front plate. Not that that helps all that much...
Yeah, and killer drones the size of insects, released by the thousands. It is really going to get interesting.
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vehicle front license plate.
Oh, I’m under the impression that some camera enforcement depends on a front plate. I could be wrong though. I know most of it is rear plate enforceable.
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