Well, they say self-reflection is an important thing for the human psyche and in the future perhaps you will have no choice in the matter, especially if you are looking at yourself in a mirror and you are wearing your Google Glass spectacles. The more you put online, on your blog, Facebook page, then the more information there will be to look at. What if you stand between two mirrors, that endless mirror sensation - will you be able to see through time and space?
Google has often stated that it wants its search engine to know what you want before you do, and for the most part with their live-searching features offering up new suggestions as you type they are indeed doing that aren't they? Okay so, there was an interesting article in the New York Times on August 31, 2013 titled; "Googling Yourself Takes on a Whole New Meaning," by Clive Thompson which discusses "the latest in high-tech eyewear."
Now back to the subject; will you like what you see, what's being said, or your past, present and possible futures? Hard to say, but maybe that's why so many folks were a little taken aback by Vannevar Bush of Bell Labs back in the day when he suggested the concept of life-logging, or recording an entire life. Soon, we'll be beyond his concept of recording every movie you watched, every book you read, every place you traveled, and all the things that you said. In the future you'll have a record of every thought you had, thing you searched, video you watched, and all the pictures of your travels, and videos of your life.
That might sound scary but it could also be a blessing - EEF (Electronic Freedom Foundation) and Internet privacy aside. In that case, there might be a Google Glass app to tell you what you will most likely do next, based on what you've done in the past. Yes, some might find this problematic, but I guess the "pre-crime" division depicted in The Minority Report with Tom Cruise will be happy to have this data, even if you'd rather they didn't.
Interestingly enough, if humans ever reach the point of being able to live forever within a computer, I bet many of the components of such an innovation are in their pre-dawn age of technology now as Google Glass moves us one step closer. Please consider all this and think on it - the future awaits.
Google has often stated that it wants its search engine to know what you want before you do, and for the most part with their live-searching features offering up new suggestions as you type they are indeed doing that aren't they? Okay so, there was an interesting article in the New York Times on August 31, 2013 titled; "Googling Yourself Takes on a Whole New Meaning," by Clive Thompson which discusses "the latest in high-tech eyewear."
Now back to the subject; will you like what you see, what's being said, or your past, present and possible futures? Hard to say, but maybe that's why so many folks were a little taken aback by Vannevar Bush of Bell Labs back in the day when he suggested the concept of life-logging, or recording an entire life. Soon, we'll be beyond his concept of recording every movie you watched, every book you read, every place you traveled, and all the things that you said. In the future you'll have a record of every thought you had, thing you searched, video you watched, and all the pictures of your travels, and videos of your life.
That might sound scary but it could also be a blessing - EEF (Electronic Freedom Foundation) and Internet privacy aside. In that case, there might be a Google Glass app to tell you what you will most likely do next, based on what you've done in the past. Yes, some might find this problematic, but I guess the "pre-crime" division depicted in The Minority Report with Tom Cruise will be happy to have this data, even if you'd rather they didn't.
Interestingly enough, if humans ever reach the point of being able to live forever within a computer, I bet many of the components of such an innovation are in their pre-dawn age of technology now as Google Glass moves us one step closer. Please consider all this and think on it - the future awaits.
