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fluffy
Trad climber
Colorado
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Apr 15, 2014 - 12:56pm PT
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I wouldn't walk around SF wearing any kind of Google gear right now
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Chaz
Trad climber
greater Boss Angeles area
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Apr 15, 2014 - 02:14pm PT
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Instead of privacy issues, I get the feeling the beef the People Of San Francisco have with these things is that they're expensive, and anyone wearing them in public is doing so just to show how wealthy they are.
Aging hippies who can barely afford to live in The City anymore see young wealthy people as a threat, especially the technological young wealthy.
In Seattle, it looks like privacy is the issue, at least in the case of this "Glas#@&%e":
http://www.seattleweekly.com/home/951984-129/portrait-of-a-glas#@&%e
He's been kicked out of a few bars - and may be personally responsible for some of the Google Glass Bans making the news lately.
But the joints who've 86'd him all look to be gay bars. Some of the customers there might not be OK with their faces being instantly uploaded to Instagram for the whole world to see.
EDTI:
I see the censor has screwed-up the link to the Seattle Weekly.
To find the article, google " portrait of a glass hole ", hit "I'm feeling lucky", and it takes you right there.
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fluffy
Trad climber
Colorado
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Apr 15, 2014 - 02:26pm PT
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Instead of privacy issues, I get the feeling the beef the People Of San Francisco have with these things is that they're expensive, and anyone wearing them in public is doing so just to show how wealthy they are.
no
it's about housing and gentrification
Google is the symbol for these issues
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Chaz
Trad climber
greater Boss Angeles area
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Apr 15, 2014 - 02:27pm PT
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Explain that. I'm missing the connection.
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fluffy
Trad climber
Colorado
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Apr 15, 2014 - 02:28pm PT
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The link in the OP explains it
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pyro
Big Wall climber
Calabasas
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Apr 15, 2014 - 02:29pm PT
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wearable's = total connectivity!
love it!
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fluffy
Trad climber
Colorado
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Apr 15, 2014 - 02:49pm PT
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Google et. al have basically invaded SF and driven up rents, changed neighborhoods and the music/nightclub scene...docked a secret barge at treasure island, run tour buses in and out of neighborhoods to disgorge flocks of young, single mostly men with enormous bank accounts and bigger senses of entitlement. These new residents are not appreciated by some and since they are by nature easy to pick out of a crowd they make ready targets for anti-tech backlash. This has been happening for months now.
SF is becoming a bedroom community for Silicon Valley, and there are a lot of people that are just marginally surviving there to begin with. They can't afford 10-12% rent hikes a year to say nothing of a real estate market that is being infused with Monopoly money.
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
Nothing creative to say
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 15, 2014 - 03:00pm PT
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if their activity isn't illegal, why is it an issue?
what, specifically, is the concern?
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Chewybacca
Trad climber
Montana, Whitefish
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Apr 15, 2014 - 03:11pm PT
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I'm getting some of these for my employees. Plug them into my 'puter so I can keep track of them. No more slacking you silly serfs.
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fluffy
Trad climber
Colorado
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Apr 15, 2014 - 03:14pm PT
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if their activity isn't illegal, why is it an issue?
heh
not falling for that
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The Call Of K2 Lou
Mountain climber
North Shore, BC
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Apr 15, 2014 - 03:23pm PT
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Those things will rot your brain, beginning with the part that regulates style.
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jstan
climber
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Apr 15, 2014 - 04:05pm PT
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We draw barriers among us based upon income, climb ratings, skin color, nationality, politics, clothes, appearance....
To this national fractionation, we now can add eyeglasses. Think people. This is the end of all we value.
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujo de la Playa
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Apr 15, 2014 - 04:38pm PT
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Google Ass
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Binks
climber
Uranus
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Apr 15, 2014 - 04:44pm PT
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glass just looks stupid. but so does a lot of functional technology, it needen't be about fashion. if there is a practical use for it, fine.
i'm tired of the next stupid phone that has a slightly faster processor and another megapixel blah blah blah. and i have an aversion to talking to someone who is sharing attention with their eye glasses computer.
housing and gentrification in SF are nothing new whatsoever, not sure why Google is getting the hate. it wasn't affordable there a decade ago, either.
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Slabby D
Trad climber
B'ham WA
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Apr 15, 2014 - 04:53pm PT
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I'm not sure it's about wealth. The dissolution of real presence in the moment into this virtual world that layers even more abstraction over our perception is highly disturbing for some. As an individual I'm sort of "meh, go be a dork". As a parent it's a bit terrifying how different a world and culture our kids are going to grow up in.
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Binks
climber
Uranus
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Apr 15, 2014 - 05:42pm PT
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i'm bored by tech. i used to love it, but it all seems so repetitive now. i'm more interested in green tech, energy tech these days. do we really need a better smart phone? wearable glass cameras? it may be inevitable, but more and more i'm trying to avoid places where people are staring at their cellphones. what's the point of that? i might as well stay home if everyone is just staring at screen when i'm "out".
i'm also utterly bored by facebook and social media. i do not need to see 90% of the content on there. and even my narcissistic side is in revolt and is bored. it's just not REAL
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kev
climber
A pile of dirt.
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Apr 15, 2014 - 08:50pm PT
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Meh - i'm not a fan of the glas#@&%es.
edit - busted by the taco police - glas$holes
Binks - given your avatar why aren't you using your real name Bob Doobs
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
Nothing creative to say
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 15, 2014 - 11:55pm PT
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Fluff, yeah, slight troll, but getting at the multiple aspects that create the conditions is very difficult to describe in terms of how they work together.
what is interesting is how google glass doesn't objectify strictly speaking it also subjects one self AND the other in a process of simulated reality: subjectification
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Lorenzo
Trad climber
Oregon
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Apr 20, 2014 - 07:30am PT
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Glass is in its infancy. Think about it. Ten years ago the latest in wearables looked like this:
Give it another ten years. The camera will be our eyes. The screen will be our brains. No need for a strap-on.
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