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No, recording glasses absolutely are awful to have in society, but there are potential good uses of the technology. None that outweigh the downsides, but good uses for it could exist.
For example when you see someone you met before it could pop up a bubble telling you their name, their relationship to you, when you saw them last, previous topics that you've discussed with them, etc. Or when you're following walking directions it could display a green line on the route you're supposed to follow. Or for people with disabilities it could do things like block out visual elements that could trigger a seizure. Etc.
But as i said earlier, all the potential upsides combined don't come close to outweighing all the very awful very real downsides. Just clarifying.
This legit sounds terrible. This sound like a world without meaningful social connections where people are cocooned into isolation by convenience technologies. You should just learn people's names. Even if it makes you a bit anxious because you are worried you will mess up details sometimes, it is better than that kind of loneliness.
"404, I haven't seen you in years!”
Translation is a great application. In. Foreign country, text is overlayed with the translation. Subtitles for people speaking.
I'd you're training you can see your regimen, heart rate, speed, exercises.
Blocking out advertisement would be fun.
But the thing should not be allowed to record anything. But even then some idiot is going to put the nudify app on the phone and we're back at creepy.
Agreed, and that's the thing. It's inherently an all or nothing technology, no rules or regulations could ever be trusted to allow the good uses but prevent the bad uses. So the only right option is to prevent the technology from being used at all
There are smart glasses without camera that can do translation. So there are some options.