{"id":19231,"date":"2013-03-02T11:08:58","date_gmt":"2013-03-02T16:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=19231"},"modified":"2013-03-02T11:08:58","modified_gmt":"2013-03-02T16:08:58","slug":"the-most-important-google-glass-experience-is-not-the-user-experience-its-the-experience-of-everyone-else","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2013\/03\/02\/the-most-important-google-glass-experience-is-not-the-user-experience-its-the-experience-of-everyone-else\/","title":{"rendered":"“The most important Google Glass experience is not<\/em> the user experience \u2013 it\u2019s the experience of everyone else”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Charles Stross<\/a> linked to this article<\/a> saying that it’s the second order effects that are going to be more important over time:<\/p>\n

The key experiential question of Google Glass isn\u2019t what it\u2019s like to wear them, it\u2019s what it\u2019s like to be around someone else<\/em> who\u2019s wearing them. I\u2019ll give an easy example. Your one-on-one conversation with someone wearing Google Glass is likely to be annoying, because you\u2019ll suspect that you don\u2019t have their undivided attention. And you can\u2019t comfortably ask them to take the glasses off (especially when, inevitably, the device is integrated into prescription lenses). Finally \u2013 here\u2019s where the problems really start \u2013 you don\u2019t know if they\u2019re taking a video of you.<\/p>\n

Now pretend you don\u2019t know a single person who wears Google Glass\u2026 and take a walk outside. Anywhere you go in public \u2013 any store, any sidewalk, any bus or subway \u2013 you\u2019re liable to be recorded: audio and video. Fifty people on the bus might be Glassless, but if a single person wearing Glass gets on, you \u2013 and all 49 other passengers \u2013 could be recorded. Not just for a temporary throwaway video buffer, like a security camera, but recorded, stored permanently, and shared to the world.<\/p>\n

[. . .]<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Google Glass is like one camera car for each of the thousands, possibly millions, of people who will wear the device \u2013 every single day, everywhere they go \u2013 on sidewalks, into restaurants, up elevators, around your office, into your home. From now on, starting today<\/strong>, anywhere you go within range of a Google Glass device, everything you do could be recorded and uploaded to Google\u2019s cloud, and stored there for the rest of your life. You won\u2019t know if you\u2019re being recorded or not; and even if you do, you\u2019ll have no way to stop it.<\/p>\n

And that<\/em>, my friends, is the experience that Google Glass creates. That<\/em> is the experience we should be thinking about. The most important Google Glass experience is not the user experience \u2013 it\u2019s the experience of everyone else.<\/strong> The experience of being a citizen, in public, is about to change.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Charles Stross linked to this article saying that it’s the second order effects that are going to be more important over time: The key experiential question of Google Glass isn\u2019t what it\u2019s like to wear them, it\u2019s what it\u2019s like to be around someone else who\u2019s wearing them. I\u2019ll give an easy example. Your one-on-one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,28,15],"tags":[328,154],"class_list":["post-19231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","category-media","category-technology","tag-google","tag-privacy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-50b","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19231"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19232,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19231\/revisions\/19232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}