Google's idea is that you need only speak to operate it
"OK, Glass, take video!"
The only other way to get that point of view is to strap a camera to your head.
And yet people are already beginning to fret about the social implications of Glass
the question of privacy
how will we behave in groups
David Yee, the chief technology officer at a company called Editorially
Yee's worry was that the young person might be filming everything
Joshua Topolsky
have tried out Google Glass
This is the company that has repeatedly breached the boundaries of what we think is "private".
forgetting that sometimes deadly enemies have mutual friends
use of personal data without an individual's clear consent.
So how comfortable – or uneasy – should we feel about the possibility that what we're doing in a public or semi-public place (or even somewhere private) might get slurped up and assimilated by Google?
Oliver Stokes
ou could inadvertently become part of somebody else's data collection – that could be quite alarming
Now it's going to be able to compute what it is you're looking at.
Song Chaoming
nalysing mobile phone records
how your smartphone is able to show where you are on an onscreen map
Google probably knows what you're going to do before you do.
Where the five million are the wearers of Glass – and the one monitor is Google
Social media
Twitter
we're more used to the snatched photo or video that tells a story
Google doesn't want to discuss these issues.
this is a live issue,
One of the reasons they're doing Explorers is to get feedback on these things
how will we behave with each other?
hows data such as your speed, altitude, and even ski-resort maps
Concentrating on what was in front of me wasn't hard
they do it without letting others realise you are doing anything
we get too deeply involved with our technology
she pointed out how smartphones change us:
Topolsky
It brought something new into view
the more I used Glass the more it made sense to me; the more I wanted it."
how text messages or phone calls would just appear as alerts
Glass makes you feel more powerful
Hurst
is likely to be annoying
here's where the problems really start – you don't know if they're taking a video of you.
Whether heavy internet use deserves to be called an addiction or just a hard-to-break habit is a question about a behavior pattern and its attendant
psychological states.
To answer it we ask such things as how strong the cravings for the internet are, what lengths a person will go to in order to satisfy
them, and so on.
Human beings are biochemical machines "designed" by natural selection
to, among other things, form habits.
The habit-forming machinery involves the release of reward chemicals, such as dopamine, that make us feel good upon attaining
these goals
In the modern world, there are shortcuts to getting these rewards
And there's some evidence (though here I'm approaching the limits of my comprehension of the science) that
people with a particular variant of a gene involved in building acetylcholine receptors are more susceptible to nicotine addiction than other people
the main point is this: the biochemical mechanisms (including genes) involved in chemical addictions will naturally be the mechanisms involved in
habit formation more generally since habit formation is what they were originally designed for.
whether it's a habit or an addiction, it is going to involve pleasure-dispensing biochemical mechanisms of the
sort that can get us addicted to such chemicals as nicotine and cocaine
After all, the internet, like these chemicals,
allows us to trigger our neuronal reward mechanisms with much less work,
it wasn't possible, in a very small and technologically primitive
social universe, to at any time of day launch an observation or joke
the internet, like a pack of cigarettes or lots of cocaine, lets you just sit in a room and repeatedly trigger reward chemicals that
And all of us have lots and lots of these genes--genes that make us susceptible to internet addiction.
some of these genes may vary from person to person in ways that make some people particularly susceptible to internet addiction
In fact, there will turn out to be so many genes which are so modestly correlated with internet addiction
that if journalists write stories every
time such a gene is found, or is thought to have been found, they will find that they're not shedding much actual light on the situation.
These genes are really just genes for being human.
"There are now signs that television news is increasingly
vulnerable
But the larger story is the rise of the Web, which has surpassed newspapers and radio to become the second most popular source of news for Americans, after TV
Radio is supported by some donations and public financing.
As this Mary Meeker slide shows, we spend more time engaging with mobile devices than reading print, but
print publications still get 25-times more ad money than mobile.
For younger people, the Internet is the new cable news.
For advertisers, cable news is still cable news.
An equal share said they saw news headlines from Facebook