[JOAT]

Can you imagine what this will morph into? Dorks submerged in fantasy world walking into you, Pervs viddy capturing various body parts..etc.

Yeah, kill them in public settings, at least from a social perspective.

[bigbob]

yes, I can...

[edcoil]

I would think someone that could afford then glasses would not be in that dive bar anyway.

[rudabaga]

I love that bar! It’s a very good dive bar and I applaud them. I am in Seattle for awhile right now and I have already seen those glasses on the street, people here will have them because of the tech industry. I agree with him, I don’t want some idiot filming everything and posting it to facebook. Google glasses is going to be a nightmare.

[dfwgator]

This will not end well.

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

I’m glad I grew out of my wild stage before everybody had a camera on them.

[stormer]

The 5 Point is by no means a “dive bar”. I’ve been there many times and while it isn’t exactly upscale, it’s not a place that’s even marginally threatening. It’s basically hipsters pretending they’re in some gritty urban joint...

[N. Theknow]

. "First you have to understand the culture of the 5 Point, which is a sometimes seedy, maybe notorious place. People want to go there and be not known...and definitely don't want to be secretly filmed or videotaped and immediately put on the Internet."

Sometimes you want to go, where nobody knows your name. Un-Cheers!

A man walked into a bar, sat down, and ordered a beer. As he sipped the beer, he heard a voice say, “Nice tie.” Looking around, he saw that the bar was empty except for him and the bartender. A few sips later, another voice said, “Beautiful shirt.” At this, the man calls the bartender over. “Say, I must be losing my mind,” he tells him. “I keep hearing these voices say nice things, and there is not a soul in here but us.” “It’s the peanuts,” explains the bartender, indicating a dish on the bar. “The peanuts?” “That’s right, the peanuts–they’re complementary.”

[Atlas Sneezed]

BRILLIANT PR!

[KrisKrinkle]

A Google spokesperson responds: "It is still very early days for Glass, and we expect that as with other new technologies, such as cell phones, behaviors and social norms will develop over time."

That strikes me as a statement of the problem.

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

I imagine that the last image, in many of the "Google Glass" recordings posted to the net, will look something like this:

[aimhigh]

My concern is people driving while wearing these things.

[chrisser]

The tech side of me appreciates the gee-wiz aspect of Google glasses.

But I don't think some of these people have thought the whole thing through. Do we all really want the minutiae of our daily lives to not only be public, but broadcast for widespread consumption? What's the supposed benefit and how does it compare against the costs?

Sure, it's really cool when you're the lone geek with the preproduction model. It's going to be an entirely different situation when every schmo has one too, and you can't even make an otherwise discrete scratch, adjustment or foible without seeing it on Youtube that afternoon from six different perspectives. But by then, it'll be too late to put the toothpaste back in the tube.