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The Implications of Google Glass

By: James Cochrane

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Technology is on the brink of another massive spreading of a breakthrough product…

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Google Glass is the most hotly anticipated new arrival in “wearable computing”

Source: Google Glass: is it a threat to our privacy?

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A revolutionary device that can:- Record videos- Take pictures- Stream live- Answer questions- Give directions- Voice message- Translate voice

All hands-free!

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Despite the innovation, Google is still facing a lot of questions…

…concerning privacy, social impacts and health concerns.

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For Google, “privacy” means “what you’ve agreed to”

Have you checked your

privacy settings lately?

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We already live in a world where the boundaries of what’s private and what’s public are melting

Source: Google Glass: is it a threat to our privacy?

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Where does all this data go?

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Google would use this breakthrough in data collection to sell to corporations in order to serve the ultimate goal of making money

What about the social impact?

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“Your one-on-one conversation with someone wearing Google Glass is likely to be annoying, because you'll suspect that you don't have their undivided attention.” - Mark Hurst

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Google Glass has the potential to make us more inwardly focused and less prone to take part in real-life conversations.

Source: What Will Google Glass Do to Our Brains?

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A study by researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill found that

the vagus nerve — which connects the heart and the brain — was negatively affected

by a lack of face-to-face communication.

Is it possible for our

technologically driven, short

attention spans to get any shorter?

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Such distraction is a big risk with Google Glass.

Simply put, the human brain lacks a robust parallel processing system.Image: Donald Lee Pardue (Flickr)

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Polled 2,462 middle and high school teachers, 87% report that these technologies are creating "an easily distracted generation with short attention spans"

Source: Texting, TV and Tech Trashing Children's Attention Spans

…and 64% say that digital technologies "do more to distract students than to help them academically."

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What will this latest potential gadget do for our generation?

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Sources

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/mar/06/google-glass-threat-to-our-privacy

http://www.google.com/glass/start/what-it-does/

http://mashable.com/2013/04/17/what-will-google-glass-do-to-our-brains/

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ellen-galinsky/kids-and-technology_b_2068862.html