Exactly. Society lives in misperception already. Just what they need: brains rewired for more misperception and the inevitable manipulation. Luckily, these devices are financially out of reach of most people, especially in the present and future economy, so the societal effect will likely be minimal.
It does remind me of the HoloLens videos when that first came out. There was a scene where everyone on the street was walking and seeing the world through that thing. I guess product managers can dream.
Tech will do what it wants to do, and all we can do is sound the alarm. We’ve witnessed Big Tech’s agenda to date, and we don’t suspect it’ll change any time soon. Santayana said that what man cannot remember he is doomed to repeat, and as true as that is, I choose to defer to Dorothy Parker here, who when asked to use the word ‘horticulture’ in a sentence said, “You can lead a whore to culture, but you can’t make her think.”
Exactly. Society lives in misperception already. Just what they need: brains rewired for more misperception and the inevitable manipulation. Luckily, these devices are financially out of reach of most people, especially in the present and future economy, so the societal effect will likely be minimal.
It does remind me of the HoloLens videos when that first came out. There was a scene where everyone on the street was walking and seeing the world through that thing. I guess product managers can dream.
Tech will do what it wants to do, and all we can do is sound the alarm. We’ve witnessed Big Tech’s agenda to date, and we don’t suspect it’ll change any time soon. Santayana said that what man cannot remember he is doomed to repeat, and as true as that is, I choose to defer to Dorothy Parker here, who when asked to use the word ‘horticulture’ in a sentence said, “You can lead a whore to culture, but you can’t make her think.”