{"id":20081,"date":"2013-05-03T00:02:49","date_gmt":"2013-05-03T05:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=20081"},"modified":"2013-05-02T16:20:01","modified_gmt":"2013-05-02T21:20:01","slug":"what-could-kill-google-glass-terminal-dorkiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2013\/05\/03\/what-could-kill-google-glass-terminal-dorkiness\/","title":{"rendered":"What could kill Google Glass? Terminal dorkiness."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <em>Wired<\/em>, Marcus Wohlsen theorizes that the inherent dork factor will be the biggest hurdle for Google Glass:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Segway. The Bluetooth headset. The pocket protector.<\/p>\n<p>What do these three technologies have in common? They all pretty much work as promised. They all seem like good ideas on paper. And they\u2019re all too dorky to live.<\/p>\n<p>Now, far be it from me to claim that nerdiness equals lack of popularity potential. But I contend that dorkiness and nerdiness are two different qualities. While nerdiness implies a certain social awkwardness that\u2019s ultimately endearing, dorkiness connotes social obliviousness that opens you to deserved ridicule.<\/p>\n<p>Guess which category Google Glass will fall under when it goes \u201cmainstream?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Forget about the privacy concerns for a second. I don\u2019t think you have to get that serious to recognize the inherent antisocialness of Google Glass. All you have to do is look at the guy in the picture at the top of this post. Or any of the rest of the guys on <a href=\"http:\/\/whitemenwearinggoogleglass.tumblr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">White Men Wearing Google Glass<\/a>, a new <em>Tumblr<\/em> that serves up the data needed to transform the hypothesis \u201cGoogle Glass is too dorky to succeed\u201d into a proven scientific theory.<\/p>\n<p>Disagree? The floor is open for falsification. Start your own <em>Tumblr<\/em>: <em>People Who Look Cool While Wearing Google Glass<\/em>. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Wired, Marcus Wohlsen theorizes that the inherent dork factor will be the biggest hurdle for Google Glass: The Segway. The Bluetooth headset. The pocket protector. What do these three technologies have in common? They all pretty much work as promised. They all seem like good ideas on paper. And they\u2019re all too dorky to [&hellip;]<\/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":[15],"tags":[109,328,174,58],"class_list":["post-20081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-computers","tag-google","tag-innovation","tag-internet"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-5dT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20081","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=20081"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20083,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20081\/revisions\/20083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}