The “most promising” (so far) electronic device for enhancing everyday life, Google’s glasses (Google Glass), has encountered an unexpected obstacle. While residents of cosmopolitan cities live and move among millions of cameras that constantly record them; while they always carry with them the telltale devices called “mobile phones”; while they themselves publicly expose their personal moments, their tastes, their beliefs on social networks; and while cheap, various types of micro-cameras are commercially available that can record anything without being seen, suddenly the extensive capabilities of Google Glass caused an outcry over “privacy violation.” And so, before the device has had a chance to become established, it is treated roughly like smoking: it is banned in various enclosed entertainment venues – in the US.
“What a pity”, we would comment.