So when I went to this PR and Digital marketing presentation for work a few days ago, I realised that we are pretty much doomed and as early as the end of this year!
It's the Google Glasses. Holy crap right. You saw that?! Constant information in your eyeball from the moment you wake up. Informing you on the weather (look out the window and find out the fecking weather!) Giving you your agenda for the day. Who you going to meet, when and where. No not because you remember it, but because it flashes in front of your face while you brushing your teeth. Every time you look in the direction of some registered place, it beams up info about it, or ask if you want to check in. Directions get mapped out in your vision like GPS when you need to get somewhere. Blip, blip, blip constantly in your head. What happened to the excitement of getting lost and having to talk to a stranger to ask directions. Or discover a new place because you took the wrong street. Bump into a friend and have a coffee instead of planning and scheduling every waking moment.
Were these glasses (oh now contacts are being considered because the glasses are so goddam ugly)- were these glasses developed because too many people were getting knocked over or walking into poles because they were constantly looking down at their phones? Or is it that we want to see if its possible to regress our brains to that of apes.
I'm afraid. I'm grossed out. I'm shocked. I'm worried. What about Tilly? Will this just be the way it is? Will she not know how to communicate, or read body language or talk to people or think for herself?
I used to think those guys at Google were impressive for developing things like Google Earth but now I'm wondering if they have little horns and pointy tails.
Protect yourselves. Teach your kids to think, question, read, discuss, discover, search. Get them to do it with actual people too and make some rules about how much time you are online when your kids are awake.
Save Us!
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