welcome to a world of through glass

Just when I'd got to grips with my smart phone, they came up with these crazy: John Humphrys gives his review of Google Glass

•     The broadcaster and journalist said he is not a convert to Google Glass
•  Although 'clever' he writes that it does the same things as his smart phone
•  Wearer feels 'slightly foolish' and Humphrys believes there is a safety issue
• Here is a sentence I never thought I’d write. I am at the cutting edge of technology. Scoff as much as you like — and those who know me best will scoff the most — but the photograph accompanying this article provides some of the proof.
  
  It shows me wearing Google Glass — and only the privileged few can claim to have done that.
  
  Privileged? That’s a matter of opinion. I’ll address later the question of whether this particular piece of technology is, as Google claims, going to change the world, or whether it’s just rather pointless.
  
  But the fact is, I’ve tried it and you almost certainly haven’t, and I’m rather pleased with myself. Childish, maybe, but there it is. Not so long ago I’d have sneered at it.
  
  I was rather proud of being the very last journalist in the BBC newsroom to abandon his ancient typewriter for a computer — and it was not my choice.
  
  I came in one morning to discover that it had gone. My boss had had it removed and he personally escorted me down to the basement of TV Centre and ordered me to spend the morning being taught to use a computer. I hated it. 
  
  Typing, for me, was as much a therapeutic as a creative process. I loved the buzz that came from hammering the keys as the deadline for the Nine O’Clock News drew nearer and I hated the delicate computer keyboards. If you were less than gentle with them, they broke. That was probably the beginning of my hostility to computer technology.
  
  When mobile phones made their first clunky appearance, I remember chairing a conference and agreeing with one of the expert speakers who said confidently they would never catch on because people would simply be too embarrassed to be seen appearing to talk to themselves in the street. Remember how we used to call them ‘poser’ phones?
  
  Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2409512/Google-Glass-review-John-Humphrys-Just-Id-got-grips-smart-phone-.html#ixzz2gPHoQU8U
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