I expect that next year the first bars and theaters will have signs saying "no glasses cameras" or "no logging." A bar in Seattle has already announced that it will ban Google Glass. Although this announcement was later dismissed as a PR stunt , it will be interesting to see what social codes will emerge around Glass.
On the bike?
Will we soon be sitting in the café with Google Glass? On the bike, in the lecture hall and at work? In other words, will we accept Glass in our daily lives? Does Google Glass support a new, sustainable lifestyle? That depends on whether the advantages outweigh the disadvantages, not on what the device can or cannot do.
Google Glass has clear social disadvantages: less privacy, even less alone with yourself and perhaps soon hopelessly 'dull'. Google is trying hard to make the thing hip: Sergey Brin himself , models and early adopters walk around with it. But only idiots and representatives now voluntarily walk around with a telephone-bluetooth headset.
But hey, it can be handy not to have to hold your phone – and camera. And for police officers, security guards list to data medical specialists, second-rate celebrities, athletes and tourists, Glass certainly offers advantages for daily use. And the more people use Google Glass daily, the greater the chance that we will accept that everyone walks around with a camera on their head. In addition, Google is working on Glass glasses for people who already wear glasses , logically. “Glasses with a camera, ma’am?” the Pearl gentleman will ask next year.
things can go fast. Calling on a bike was new and 'rather exaggerated' at the beginning of this century. Now it's completely normal.
Applications
Google is frantically searching for applications that can persuade humanity to put on Google Glasses every morning. The latest apps for Glass , which Google demonstrated this week at the still-recently-hip SXSW festival in Austin, don't make the difference yet. News in the corner of your eye, collecting images and information, chatting (in collaboration with the New York Times, Evernote and Path, a kind of WhatsApp): nice, but not convincing for the café.