Hahahaha...that is OUTSTANDING. Douchey indeed.

Glasshole or not, Augmented Reality apps are going to explode with this thing, making it a must have for those visiting countries like Japan or France, making it the ultimate Babel Fish translator, all in real time thanks to cloud computing. It wont be long before this tech shrinks down to the point where its embedded into he visor of a baseball hat, invisible to others around you.

Naturally if this were Apple, it would have a better design but do the exact same thing, except everyone would be falling over each other praising Apples awesome innovation.

Read.... set.... START YER BITCHING!!

The reaction to Google Glass is a little more vitriolic than the reaction to cell phones in the 80s and 90s, but I agree with the above commenter: soon enough it will be considered indispensable.

Kinda like Gary Shteyngart's Äppärät in the wonderful novel Super Sad True Love Story

There will be a period of discomfort with Glass but one day live streaming your life, including sex, will probably be as commonplace as posting swimsuit pics on Instagram, and no big deal -- just as Shteyngart predicts. Can't wait to see Terry Miller's X-rated live vid feed :-)

@myself - I don't personally have Glass.

Too bad the Daily Show misses the point. It's not the invasiveness of recording, it's that in the USA employers de facto can treat employees as indentured servants.

It's at will employment in the USA, no cause required for termination, and private, legal, personal time behavior is not protected. De facto indentured servitude for anyone who isn't rich. We see headline cases of bigots losing their TV shows but a bigger problem is that ordinary people can get fired for doing ordinary shit on their own time that just rubs and employer the wrong way, like the Brian Maupin the best buy clerk making fun of customers who want the wifis (never mentioned the store name so didn't really do any harm):

http://www.technobuffalo.com/2010/07/03/…

I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking.

Time for a remake of the 1955 classic -- done entirely with Glass wearing actors-participants!

Or else, an update of the Buggles song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOTd1MzQ…

It is the recording that annoys people. It's just creepy and it won't become indispensable. Augmented apps work just fine with a cell phone camera and people will be less creeped out by someone clearly using it. It's the "are you filming me?/why are you filming me?" vibe that the glass holes give off whenever they look in your direction that doom this technology.

Not that I love Google glass or don't think that the people walking around with these things look a bit like asses, but I find it funny that people who are being secretly recorded all the time are upset that someone may be doing it in a more obvious way.

I am willing to bet that almost every restaurant, bar, or store that has refused to serve people with these ridiculous things on their faces have hidden cameras. Some pointing at their employees and the cash registers, and others at the customers.

Every time you walk down the street in any major city you are being recorded by something.

And you still don't know if the guy across from you on the train is just checking his mail or taking a video or picture of you. I see surreptitiously snapped images on facebook all the time.

Camera's are everywhere and we are all under surveillance constantly. Really, the one's people are wearing on their faces are the last ones you should be worrying about. The surveillance by your government, your police and your employer is where your concern should be. At least if you can see the camera you know you might be recorded and know to be careful what you say or do.

When your phone calls are being analyzed by the NSA, the police are snapping pictures of you, and your employer is secretly monitoring your online activities getting all worked up over some douche with Google glass on their face really is stupid.

@ 9, whatever else the government is doing with images, they're not posting them to creepy websites or Facebook in order to humiliate you.

We can be concerned about both the gov't AND glassholes. Right now the topic is glassholes.

Trust me, I can snap a picture of ou with my phone without you knowing it too, and post that anywhere I want, and you will most likely be less aware of it than if I had a camera on my face. You will just think I was checking my email or facebook or something, like thousands of people actually are doing at any given moment.

This is nothing new, it is just a new device that does the same thing that the devices we already have.

@9, you make good points. My rebuttal is that we already modulate our behavior in public places like restaurants, trains, etc. We are still able to cut loose, get sloppy, mouth off, etc in private places without fear of it ending up on YouTube/Facebook. When a friend is wearing Google Glass, it has a chilling effect on those private interactions just as if the host had a CTV.

So if a year from now, or ten years from now, nobody is wearing a camera phone on their face, will you all then learn? Will you all shut up?

Segway didn't make you shut up, obviously. What would it take for you guys to learn?

Hope you're doing something relaxing over the weekend Daniel.
Thanks for being there.
Again I'm reminded of the kangaroos and boomerangs. Which is sort of nice in a way, my mind goes to our rich Aboriginal culture.( so badly abused, by white people over 200 yrs). And our sweet kangaroos.

@9, Think of the difference like being out in pubic and being seen by everyone vs being stared at by someone. One is uncomfortable, the other is not.

@12: "we already modulate our behavior in public places like restaurants, trains, etc. We are still able to cut loose, get sloppy, mouth off, etc in private places without fear of it ending up on YouTube/Facebook"

Two rebuttals to your rebuttal.

One is that public places ARE the issue. People are getting upset about Google Glass at restaurants, bars, on the street. All places where you are already being watched and recorded.

In a private space you can set a rule of not Google Glass just as you can set a rule of no cell phones, and it might make a difference. Also being private, so long as it is your space, it is hard to argue that your rules shouldn't be obeyed no matter what others think of them.

But point two, I have never been to a private space where I was told I had to leave my cellphone at the door, and my cellphone can do everything that Google Glass can do. AND, because of that you really CAN'T act out, mouth off etc... without expecting it to show up online somewhere.

Take a look online at videos of people doing things stupid or embarrassing that made to youtube or face book or twitter.

Many of them occurred in "private spaces" and almost none of them were captured on Google Glass, since it isn't available to the general public and really only a handful of people have it now.

If you cut loose and something you might regret it has a good chance of ending up online even in a private space and even without Google Glass. Google Glass changes virtually nothing about that paradigm.

Since the vast majority of incidents in private places ending up online occur due to cell phones then the ire should be directed at them as much, if not more, since 99.99% of it gets there via cellphone.

@15, being watched is being watched. Some creep takes a picture of you with Google Glass instead of just with his cellphone and puts it on his facebook. Sucks, but will happen even with out the Google Glass. Camera at a light catches you as the light changes from yellow to red and you aren't clear of the intersection and you get mailed a nice, expensive ticket. You are really more upset about the first one than the second, when the end result of the first one is going to happen even if there is no such thing as Google Glass?

The genie is out of the bottle. We all carry around little movie and recording studios in our pockets. You are surrounded by cameras constantly, and being recorded and your activities monitored constantly.

The idea that the creep who secretly snaps a photo of you on the bus is the problem when your emails and phone calls are being analyzed for key words and you are being tracked a millions ways, including cameras, by a government that has basically managed to eliminate your right to privacy just doesn't make sense. And yes, people can be upset about both, but the amount of vitriol I have seen hurled at the Google Glass idiots is far more vehement, and even down right violent than that directed at the government

People moan about the government spying on us, but they violently attack people with Google Glass when their actions are far less dangerous to your privacy and freedom.

So go ahead and rail against the Google heads. I'm sure the government loves having you feel like getting rid of the idiot with the thing on their face protects your privacy. But almost everyone still has that phone in their pocket. Your feeling of security and privacy will still be only an illusion.

It was a lot of fun to film this segment and I wrote about my experiences here: http://nickstarr.wordpress.com/2014/06/1…

I never liked the idea of carrying a phone everywhere so people can get ahold of me any time - yet I'm carrying it.

I don't like the idea of people being able to take pictures this surreptitiously - but of course, hidden cameras (in pens or whatever) have been around for decades.

I agree in a year or two we'll see a lot of these around; I think they won't be Segways. Whether it will be good, bad, or indifferent, guess we'll find out.

My dislike of them is similar to that of anything that "helps one interface more efficiently with reality." Like people carrying around high tech weather apps who can tell you, right now, what the weather is right where you're standing.

Anyone remember back when car phones started to become a thing and you could buy a fake antenna so strangers would think you had a car phone? This winds up with a similar sillily ostentatious vibe. "Did you say something? Hey, I can look up a factoid about it! Here is the factoid I just looked up! Oooh, and I just got a text. Wait, why are you talking... huh?" It's got all the annoyance of the friend who sits across from you texting with people who aren't there, even if that person will now gaze in your general direction and occasionally roll their eyes while doing it.

See the Doonesbury from last Sunday, where the professor stations a grad student with a paintball gun at the back of the lecture hall to splatter any screens displaying something other than notetaking. He announces this to the class, but they're all too busy multitasking to process it.

It's a bluetooth headset. Looking around the restaurant I'm in. ... nope, no one wearing a bluetooth.

And I like how people justify glass by saying current phone tech already does everything glass does. Total lack of awareness.

The reason that people hate Google Glass, but have no problem with cameras on phones is that no one yet has Google Glass, but everyone has (and is addicted to) a smart phone. We know that what we do with phones is just as invasive as Glass will be, but we live with it because, no fucking way will we go back to not having the internet with us 24/7.

Most likely, once everyone has access to Glass, it'll become indispensable and this conversation will be conveniently forgotten.

As a tech-geek I'm interested in Google Glass and wouldn't mind trying it out myself but I also know that The Daily Show's purpose is to mine a situation for humor.

It was a funny segment and I don't feel sorry at all for anybody who seriously takes on the moniker "explorer" and feels oppressed if asked to remove them in a bar.

@16, and the other glassholes who say it's just like every camera out there, IT'S NOT. I don't walk around pointing my cell phone camera at everyone's face. Nobody does. You know why? Because it would be incredibly annoying.
Here's another false equivocation for you…Heavy Metal singers who scream at the top of their lungs exist and are tolerated and sometimes even appreciated when they are on a stage with a band. They would be less so walking around the street screaming into every person's face. Do you get it now? Yes cameras exist, yes we all have them, yes we show up on traffic and ATM cameras, but that doesn't justify some technodouchebag in a utilikilt and top hat who thinks that filming everyone is the same thing. It's not.

I can pretty much guarantee that none of them are filming everyone. They are more likely to be watching a youth video than filming you.

So yes, it is just like the cameras that are pointed at you constantly. In the vast majority of cases YOU aren't the focus of those cameras even if you often end up on them.

Google glass isn't primarily and solely designed for filming other people even if it has that capability. It is primarily for accessing the internet and accessing information you have on your phone.

And yes, people do pretty much point their phone cameras at people constantly. This morning on the train I had at least five phones with cameras pointed in my direction. Of course I doubt any of them were actually using the camera or even aware of my existence. They were all probably checking their emails, texting, or checking facebook, just like the people with the Google Glass are most likely doing.