Comment by vunderba
7 months ago
> It seems like there are a lot of negative comments about Meta's glasses which is surprising to me as a regular user.
Really? Does nobody remember the "Glasshole" debacle with another equally large FAANG corporation who tried to push a similar technology? There were incidents of people getting physically assaulted JUST for wearing the things.
In 10 years the mentality evolves.
It used to be considered extremely rude to pull out your phone during a conversation, now all the under 20 do it.
“evolves” is doing an awful lot of heavy lifting there
In fact, we are devo.
20 years ago the world wasn't so tense and deeply polarised as it is now either. I think many people would object more now, not less.
Google glass isn't that old though. It started in 2012 with selected testing users and in 2014 it became possible to just buy one.
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