This is not the future I want. I already got into the habit of not researching things myself but rather finding a quick answer on Google. Now they take this approach into the real life. You need to go somewhere? Google will carefully plan a route for you. Their eventual goal is to route us throughout our entire lifes. No, thanks.
I agree with this completely, I'm beginning to believe that these 'cool' and 'innovative' gadgets are beginning to strip away at the individual's creativity and existence.
I'm not saying this technology wouldn't be cool or awesome to use, I just don't see it benefitting the majority of humanity in the future.
> I just don't see it benefitting the majority of humanity in the future.
What do you mean by "benefit"?
There's a lot of stuff which has very little benefit if you define benefit in certain ways.
With luck the trickle down (people becoming rich from creating these gadgets; concentrations of very smart people in California; etc) could be used not only to explore deep oceans but also to create smart innovative tech for developing world problems.
It'd be great if Google (for example) had a developing world think-tank.
A quick answer isn't research anyways. It's like going to a wikipedia page and blaming it for giving the superficial amount of knowledge you needed in the first place. Do we stop there? No, we employ further systematic investigation.
Don't wear em if you know where you're going. I don't think anybody uses Google Maps to get to their own house or anything they're familiar with. I only watched the video without sound but my guess is the use case is to help you interact and get things done when you have no starting point or fishing for something unfamiliar.
Basically its just a HCI transformation from phone to glasses which I personally wouldn't use either. I'm still waiting for the contacts version ;)
What you're saying is awfully short-sighted. Technology is here to enable a better life for us - make things easier for us. What's so wrong about having software tell you the exact route you need to take?
If one day we get a technology that enables us to be smarter, stronger, more beautiful - is that going to be beneficial for the mankind? What's wrong with it, is that you get used to not figuring out things yourself. You stop practicing certain skills and end up relying on Google too much. What was the cognitive method that Leonardo da Vinchi used? He was figuring out everything by himself. Of course it's quite an absurd in the modern world, where we stand on the shoulders of the giants. But still, a good deal creativity should be required.
That's more of a philosophical issue with the whole human civilization. In our journey to become independent of the nature we made ourselves dependent on the infrastructure. And companies like Google take it one step further.
