I wasn't sure why it was banned, but I guess it allows you to secretly record people at work? I don't know anything about Glass except that it's fucking goofy looking.
Ike, June 16, 2014, 12:21:39 am
In all honesty, I think this objection is pretty much a mislead. Yes, you can serrupticiously record something with Glass, but that's really a way to formalize your objection.
Is it morally wrong that you want to use your phone in such a way that you aren't physically holding the thing up to your face? No. But that Bluetooth headset thing you bought in 2009 makes you look like an absolute cunt, and nobody wants to talk to you when you have that fucking thing on.
Argue convenience all you like, but your face has an apparatus which links you to an artificial world, thereby removing you from the real world at least in some degree, and it's offensive to those around you. Your phone call doesn't need to be that omnipresent, and if it was coming out of a little black box, at least that gives a sense of perspective, as opposed to a conversation that's only happening in your head.
Glass is like the Bluetooth Headset but way moreso. Partly because it's making that alternate reality shit visual as well, making it so you can pull off every rude cellphone faux pas much easier, but also just because of the price of the thing.
People wearing Google Glass had put their name on a list in the hopes that they'd be chosen for the opportunity to spend two grand on a shiny piece of shit. Its like having a Fendi sticker on your nose.
Its everything douchey and irritating about technology in one perfect little package. Not the dystopian future world we may one day live in, but an acelleration of the "fucking seriously you need to check your fucking Facebook right now while we're having fucking dinner?" present that we live in. Glassholes think we'll all be wearing those things in the future. I know that if we were, we'd all be shittier people even more incapable of living in the actual moment, so the prospect scares and angers me.
Also they might be recording so that's why they're banned.