[B][url]http://creativegood.com/blog/the-google-glass-feature-no-one-is-talking-about/[/url][/B]
[quote]Google Glass might change your life, but not in the way you think. There’s something else Google Glass makes possible that no one – no one – has talked about yet, and so today I’m writing this blog post to describe it.
To read the raving accounts of tech journalists who Google commissioned for demos, you’d think Glass was something between a jetpack and a magic wand: something so cool, so sleek, so irresistible that it must inevitably replace that fading, pitifully out-of-date device called the smartphone.
Sergey Brin himself said as much yesterday, observing that it is “emasculating” to use a smartphone, “rubbing this featureless piece of glass.” His solution to that piece of glass, of course, is called Glass. And his solution to that emasculation is – well, as VentureBeat put it, “Sergey Brin calls smartphones ‘emasculating’ – but dorky Google Glass [is] A-OK.”
Like every other shiny innovation these days, Google Glass will live or die solely on the experience it creates for people. The immediate, most visible problem in the Glass experience is how dorky the user looks while wearing it. No one wants to be the only person in the bar dressed like a cyborg from a 1992 virtual-reality movie. It’s embarrassing. Early adopters will abandon Google Glass if they don’t sense the social approval they seek while wearing it.[/quote]
[quote]The really interesting aspect is that all of the indexing, tagging, and storage could happen without the Google Glass user even requesting it. Any video taken by any Google Glass, anywhere, is likely to be stored on Google servers, where any post-processing (facial recognition, speech-to-text, etc.) could happen at the later request of Google, or any other corporate or governmental body, at any point in the future.
Remember when people were kind of creeped out by that car Google drove around to take pictures of your house? Most people got over it, because they got a nice StreetView feature in Google Maps as a result.
Google Glass is like one camera car for each of the thousands, possibly millions, of people who will wear the device – every single day, everywhere they go – on sidewalks, into restaurants, up elevators, around your office, into your home. From now on, starting today, anywhere you go within range of a Google Glass device, everything you do could be recorded and uploaded to Google’s cloud, and stored there for the rest of your life. You won’t know if you’re being recorded or not; and even if you do, you’ll have no way to stop it.
And that, my friends, is the experience that Google Glass creates. That is the experience we should be thinking about. [B]The most important Google Glass experience is not the user experience – it’s the experience of everyone else.[/B] The experience of being a citizen, in public, is about to change.
Just think: if a million Google Glasses go out into the world and start storing audio and video of the world around them, the scope of Google search suddenly gets much, much bigger, and that search index will include you. Let me paint a picture. Ten years from now, someone, some company, or some organization, takes an interest in you, wants to know if you’ve ever said anything they consider offensive, or threatening, or just includes a mention of a certain word or phrase they find interesting. A single search query within Google’s cloud – whether initiated by a publicly available search, or a federal subpoena, or anything in between – will instantly bring up documentation of every word you’ve ever spoken within earshot of a Google Glass device.
This is the discussion we should have about Google Glass. The tech community, by all rights, should be leading this discussion. Yet most techies today are still chattering about whether they’ll look cool wearing the device.[/quote]
Interesting read. Although I myself will probably not get the Google glass because of the way it looks, as the article says I don't want to look like a cyborg.
Edit: Kai I am dumb because I don't like the way something looks, it's called opinion.
This sounds like a real life version of 1984.
Seems a like someone's a little paranoid about it.
[QUOTE=Mac2468;39790460]Seems a like someones a little paranoid about it.[/QUOTE]
yeah this article is a bit sensationalist really
it's just conspiracy shit
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How practical would it be for a company to do a comprehensive and in-depth search of an entire person over the course of [I]decades[/I]? How long does that take for a single person? How long would it take to run this check on every single one of the thousands of people applying for your company? Will this search require technology that doesn't even exist yet?
People will always have a stick up their ass about "omg google is spying on us"
This is very speculative. I don't think that all video is going to be automatically uploaded to Google servers. I think that Glass will be more like an Android device with Siri, but projected on your glasses
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I'm OK with this.
In the same way that every piece of data you send and receive on the internet can be spied on at any moment, the fact that nobody is bothering to look for you makes you safe because nobody is insane enough to pick through the sheer volume of data for shots in the dark.
I want every time I masturbate to be uploaded to the cloud.
I'm [b]cumming[/b] for you, Google.
Edit: also this is the premise to watch_dogs just sayin
If every company gave a shit about their workers saying offensive things while off the clock, they would have a hard time finding anyone to do anything.
[QUOTE=SGTNAPALM;39790516]nobody is insane enough to pick through the sheer volume of data for shots in the dark.[/QUOTE]
... except search engines? You know, Google and all?
This article's 1984 trip is all speculation, but it sounds plausible enough to happen (especially given the current technology) if Google decided to pull a 180°
Think of how many ways Google is already collecting data everywhere. They based their business on collecting data and analyzing it, after all
I don't know about this, I mean I'd imagine that eventually there would be [I]so much[/I] information that somebody would have to wade through to find anything relevant to what they are looking for, that the situation described doesn't seem very practical, to me anyway.
[QUOTE=MaxOfS2D;39790534]... except search engines? You know, Google and all?
This article's 1984 trip is all speculation, but it sounds plausible enough to happen (especially given the current technology) if Google decided to pull a 180°
Think of how many ways Google is already collecting data everywhere. They based their business on collecting data and analyzing it, after all[/QUOTE]
Yeah, but without anything there, either some sort of AI or a person to sit there and read it all in real time, that data means nothing.
[QUOTE=SGTNAPALM;39790491]How practical would it be for a company to do a comprehensive and in-depth search of an entire person over the course of [I]decades[/I]? How long does that take for a single person? How long would it take to run this check on every single one of the thousands of people applying for your company? Will this search require technology that doesn't even exist yet?[/QUOTE]
once you have access to the data it becomes a matter of time until you develop software that can analyze it for you.
[editline]4th March 2013[/editline]
[QUOTE=Ardosos;39790539]I don't know about this, I mean I'd imagine that eventually there would be [I]so much[/I] information that somebody would have to wade through to find anything relevant to what they are looking for, that the situation described doesn't seem very practical, to me anyway.[/QUOTE]
if you develop better facial recognition software and know what you're looking for, you can track people relatively easily.
[QUOTE=yawmwen;39790565]once you have access to the data it becomes a matter of time until you develop software that can analyze it for you.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, that's why I questioned whether or not this technology even existed yet.
I'm pretty sure Google won't be constantly storing everything seen by every Glass, simply because of bandwidth.
3G is barely enough to upload a decent-resolution video feed (not to mention how quickly it would eat your bandwidth caps), and Wifi can't be relied upon for something that's specifically designed to be portable. So by those limitations it needs to be able to do most things via local processing.
Really, as far as privacy goes, it should be no different than a smartphone.
[quote]A single search query within Google’s cloud – whether initiated by a publicly available search, or a federal subpoena, or anything in between – will instantly bring up documentation of every word you’ve ever spoken within earshot of a Google Glass device.[/quote]
how is this at all true? if someone takes a picture while using glass, and i'm in the background of the photo, that doesn't mean some company can type in my name and see that picture of me because i was never linked to that picture. unless my name was somehow manually linked to the photo / video / text there's no magical database entry for some mystery corporation to find me in. even if i were a glass user, unless i input my real personal info in my google account, or somehow let my employer / mystery corp find my google account name, there's no way to identify what data is actually mine
[QUOTE=SGTNAPALM;39790582]Yeah, that's why I questioned whether or not this technology even existed yet.[/QUOTE]
it's in its infancy afaik(i may be wrong). facial recognition software is becoming more and more sophisticated as time goes on, though. i mean some state governments already use facial recognition software for their state id program.
I just don't see why it matters if you say "offensive" things. What are we talking about? Like, "shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker, and tits"? or things like "I hate blacks"? Pretty much everyone swears, even people who are ~professional~ and run companies. As long as you're saying it off the clock, and your past workplaces have no complaints of you saying shit like that while on the job, then you're no worse off than you are now. And if you're a racist, you're probably going to have trouble with a lot more than Google Glass. I think it's just a made up issue.
[QUOTE=Kopimi;39790597]how is this at all true? if someone takes a picture while using glass, and i'm in the background of the photo, that doesn't mean some company can type in my name and see that picture of me because i was never linked to that picture. unless my name was somehow manually linked to the photo / video / text there's no magical database entry for some mystery corporation to find me in. even if i were a glass user, unless i input my real personal info in my google account, or somehow let my employer / mystery corp find my google account name, there's no way to identify what data is actually mine[/QUOTE]
the theory is that eventually facial recognition will be good enough that it can flawlessly and in real time label your name to your face
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if you develop better facial recognition software and know what you're looking for, you can track people relatively easily.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, but I mean recording constant video of people using the glasses for the duration that they are using them, and storing all this video? Over time, that has to add up, you know?
The amount of bandwidth/storage space this will require will be enormous. It just won't be practical. At least not for many years down the road
[QUOTE=MaxOfS2D;39790534]... except search engines? You know, Google and all?
This article's 1984 trip is all speculation, but it sounds plausible enough to happen (especially given the current technology) if Google decided to pull a 180°
Think of how many ways Google is already collecting data everywhere. They based their business on collecting data and analyzing it, after all[/QUOTE]
good ol' max making quality theories
The article seems a bit .... something like a conspiricy and sensationalist and freaking out. Its not really practical for them to basically record down everything over the course of years. Face it, we're not that interesting.
[QUOTE=SGTNAPALM;39790610]the theory is that eventually facial recognition will be good enough that it can flawlessly and in real time label your name to your face[/QUOTE]
how will google know that a photo of me is actually OF me if i never registered my name to my face?
[QUOTE=Ardosos;39790611]Yeah, but I mean recording constant video of people using the glasses for the duration that they are using them, and storing all this video? Over time, that has to add up, you know?[/QUOTE]
Google is spending around $80 Million to build a private airport for their private jet.
Storing a ton of data wouldn't be that hard.
[QUOTE=Kopimi;39790632]how will google know that a photo of me is actually OF me if i never registered my name to my face?[/QUOTE]
thats the problem google's engineers will have to solve. maybe it will write an ai that can detect if someone is looking at you and saying your name or some shit
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