Google Glass 2.0 Is a Startling Second Act

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My cynical view of this is that it's the final death knell for industrial work. Why hire someone with experience or talent when you just need a warm body to follow the ikea instructions and turn screws?

It reminds me of the dystopian short story "Manna"[1] where all workers wear a Google Glass like device and an AI controls them.

[1] http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm

Loved that story. We can even dream of the ending (with bitcoin, ether and dao's .. haha!).

The first version of Glass was utter crap and felt like a waste of money (I'm surprised they didn't get sued by purchasers). I won't trust them again as a developer. Frankly, they should allow devs to exchange their hw for the new one for free or a significant discount. If they did that, I'd look at their platform. Else, I'm out.

How can a Wired writer be so naive as to entirely miss the big play here?

Obviously Google is using Glass in these scenarios to conduct data collection which can ultimately be used to train robots for the same jobs. Very clever that they are able to get the companies to pay for it and the workers to buy into it. I'm not saying the usage as described (help human workers function better at their jobs) is not a win; it's just not the real story.

HN is not a good place to post unsourced conspiracy theories.

HN is the exact right place for comments like the one above.

Not only is it exceedingly reasonable, google has a history of exactly this type of play. 2 examples: they offered "free 411" to train their voice recognition, and they used captchaa first to decode books, and now to train computer vision algos. The theory offered is superbly likely IMO.

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