Why We Hate Google Glass – And All New Tech

I wonder if we'll see public service ads about etiquette for Google Glass. ("Google Glass -- wear it in your home, not in the street.") That Penny Arcade cartoon did make a good point. What if you walked out your front door, and every single person on your street had a video camera hoisted onto their shoulder?

They're still showing reminders to turn off your cellphone when you're in a movie theatre. (In fact, they're also still sorting out all the ramifications of cellphones and drivers.) The technology arrives, and then our society fumbles around over how we'll use it...and often over many years. The best argument for the importance of Google Glass is that its potential is disturbing enough to provoke this conversation....

People don't unilaterally love Glass yet, in my cynical view, because there has not been a marketing push for it.

Remember back to the day it was first introduced. People bloody sky dived to the stage wearing them. Every where you looked it was the second coming of amazing.

Now that there is no real marketing push by those that are looking to sell, the only thing we have left are the voices of those that don't like it.

I'm not convinced it will be amazing. I'm also still open to the idea that it has its uses. I just don't know what they are, right off. (Well, I have a few ideas, but nothing amazing.)

I think it's less fear of the unknown, more the fact that we've recently opened the Pandora's box of surveillance (in the public consciousness at least) and we know that this device will step up the pervasiveness by another large factor. People are uneasy, and to write this off simply as silly ignorance or lack of imagination is, I think, rather patronising.

No I think this is why people don't like glass

http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2013/06/14