Reactions to Google Glass
Google Glass is in the news a lot: it’s what they call “wearable” computing. Computing on things you wear, like glasses or watches. Like the smartphone, the Glass has a camera, GPS, Internet connectivity and understands voice commands. Glass (like spectacles) is always pointed at whatever it is you are looking at. Which is why you can give it instructions like “Glass, take a photo”. Or ask for info or ask for directions. With Glass, Google even managed to project info/directions on your, er, glasses without blocking your vision! Ok, so that’s the gist of the device itself. Only 8,000 units in circulation (to handpicked applicants) and yet there have been strong reactions. The reaction about Glass’s impact on knowledge/education was: “The idea is that we will all be better off if we’re always connected to the web, always on, and have uninterrupted and instantaneous access to it and humanity’s “knowledge.”…I think, though, that is a terribly deluded and shallow understanding of