Google Glass! Can't wait! Walking around and looking at stuff and there's internet everywhere, floating a few feet in front of me, capable of analyzing images in a split second and identifying the exact model of bus heading towards me as a German AE-58 (screeeeeeeeechthump)
Two thoughtful pieces on Google Glass remind us that there's a problem with these things. A big problem. No one will want to talk to anyone wearing them, because they will seem distracted, and oh by the way you're being filmed and uploaded to Google's servers. Mark Hurst:
How well do you think people will react to someone on the bus who's filming everyone? Poorly.
Joel Hladecek knows it will fail, because he's from the future.
Read the whole thing, as they say.
I'm as novelty-added as the next guy, and I love new technology - and I have no interest in these things.
WEB This is fun: The Museum of Endangered Sounds.
BOOK SThis is sad: The biographer of Ward Kimball, one of the great Disney animators, says his book was cancelled - and he says he thinks Disney nixed it. More here.
