I was thinking face recognition technology could give you everything from background checks to Facebook pages. On the other hand it would make FBI's most wanted list harder to hide from.

I foresee an incredible surge in wireless jamming technology.

@2, I would wear jamming glasses. Even a jamming trilby or porkpie. A jammer that could be tucked into one's mustache or beard would sell like hotcakes in the Pike/Pine neighborhood.

Whatever, get back to me when they have x-ray vision.

The real issue would be (and here Google stands to benefit) the competitive advantage a Four Eyed Cybernoid would have over the typical dumb person. So there's the Glassy eyed brainiac spouting Wikiquotes at a cocktail party while you merely have blue tinted contacts. Soon everyone will want a pair, like Sneeches and stars.

I think it would be great, too, if it interprets languages. Wow, you could communicate with a lot of different people all over the world without learning a single language. Grade point averages, legal briefs, words to songs, prices in stores, art auctions. Now that I think of it, it kind of makes you super human.

At MIT I knew several "cyborgs" who wore early prototypes of wearable computers (and are probably working at Google now). They were not nearly as covert since the camera and screen apparatus was very visible.

And they had battles with various businesses. As part of the experiment they considered the electronics to be part of their person so they would generally refuse to remove them.

It will be interesting as these go mainstream. Cell phones already allow "awkward gym" videos to go viral. Cameras are now carried routinely in locker rooms, concerts, movie theaters, and other places where they are just not socially acceptable or otherwise forbidden.

Now, though, we'll have something more like those Russian dash cams attached to the front of every passersby.

I can't imagine they'll make these with prescription lenses... either they'll work along side prescription glasses, or people who wear the prescription version will have to get used to carrying around another pair of glasses at all times- because there's no way in hell these things be allowed in locker rooms, strip clubs, etc.

Another more pressing issue no one seems to be talking about is people driving while wearing these things. Can you imagine? Good god.

You know, smart phones have the ability to record video and take pictures too. These days, when somebody has their phone out, you don't know if they're texting, browsing the web, or shooting video of you, and nobody seems to have a problem with that. So maybe take your Luddite bullshit somewhere else.

With every moment, every foible, flaw and error, potentially being recorded and preserved for an eternity of consumption by an unforgiving public, we will now all know what it is to be the heroin in a Jane Austin novel. Perpetually one misstep away from disgrace and ridicule (if not social ruin). I wonder if it might generally improve public behavior. I doubt it though. I suspect that in this Kardashian era, to make a big enough ass of oneself to go viral will be the new celebrity.

We'll get used to google glasses soon enough. It will take a bit of adjustment, then we will just take it for granted that every moment we spend with other people is not only public, but universally available for review.

I actually prefer google glasses to security cameras. Less creepy to know every second I spend with another person may be recorded than to wonder about every second I spend alone.

Health clubs are now going to have to prohibit Google glasses in locker rooms (as the more upscale ones now prohibit cell phones and other devices.)

@10 Uh, no. You can clearly tell the difference between someone shooting video and texting. Protip: IT'S WHEN THEY'RE POINTING THE PHONE AT YOU.

I'm sure Will in Seattle has some well-thought-out insights from all that secret Google Glass testing he's been doing.

@ 15, I'm only clicking on this thread to see you and Will go at it.

Thanks, @16. Just think of it as me carrying a cell phone or tablet and recording you every second of every day.

The main problem I found, behavior-wise, is I frequently forgot to turn them off in the bathroom. One gets distracted.

Seriously, the privacy implications of always-on are worrisome. But I'm far more worried about what happens when surgical robots commit murder. Do they care if we jail them? Or is that like a vacation for them?

Funnily enough, I just saw on my FB feed that The Five Point Cafe has gone ahead and become the first Seattle business to ban Google Glass (and encourage ass-kickings for violators.

Though I assume that within a year or three they will be available as a thingie (the technical term) that attaches to your regular glasses, and will eventually be inobtrusive enough that no one will be able to tell.

@17, "them"? It's funny when you can't keep your own lies straight. You do not have Google Glass. And we're supposed to believe that you record video 24/7? That's not how it works. You have no idea how it works.

But thanks for making everyone on Slog imagine you videoing yourself going to the toilet right before lunchtime, prick.

@10.. i don't know what rock you live under but i know MANY people have issues and problems with 'smart' devices as they already are, issues that range to social courtesies to privacy, so to imagine that this technology will be met with legitimate concern is not some bullshit 'luddite' fantasy.

@20 if by "many" you mean "old" then yes

I'm trying to imagine how Google Glass would work for people who need prescription lenses.

Sure, sure, you could wear contacts AND Google Glass...but it seems to me that if you need to see THROUGH prescription lenses to see that everything Google Glass adds onto those lenses would be blurry.

(As a glasses-only person, it seems like Google Glass will fall into the same category as 3D movies for me...things other people get to enjoy.)

AND...props to Dart for another funny video!

@21, please tell me you did not just come in here and call the good Reverend "old", son.

@23 No, just the many people concerned about privacy issues I keep hearing about all the time. I constantly wonder what new technology, trend or music I'll be dislike in 10, 20, 30 or 40 years. Probably something about those damned kids and their hivemind.

@24, I'm sure that whatever is going through your mind in 40 years will be just as fascinating as whatever's going through it now.

The eventual endpoint could be something more like this is you like semi-distopias (7 minute short and dating with app implants)
https://vimeo.com/46304267