{"id":186355,"date":"2014-02-20T19:51:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-21T00:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/02\/20\/google-realizes-that-it-has-created-a-monster\/"},"modified":"2014-02-20T19:51:00","modified_gmt":"2014-02-21T00:51:00","slug":"google-realizes-that-it-has-created-a-monster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/02\/20\/google-realizes-that-it-has-created-a-monster\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Realizes That it Has Created a Monster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/i990.photobucket.com\/albums\/af27\/msaroff\/tumblr_lsc355eZ7q1r2eblvo1_500_zpsf32b785d.png\" rel=\"lytebox\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i990.photobucket.com\/albums\/af27\/msaroff\/tumblr_lsc355eZ7q1r2eblvo1_500_zpsf32b785d.png\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;\" width=\"290\" \/><\/a>They are now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2014\/02\/20\/glassholes_google_recognizes_that_its_monstrous_spawn\/\">giving glassholes instructions on how not to to be complete jerks<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Google, in perhaps a tacit realization that it has spawned a small army of particularly insufferable cyborgs, has issued an etiquette manual for the first generation of Google Glass users (or \u201cGlass Explorers\u201d as they\u2019re called).<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">With a list of unsolicited \u201cDo\u2019s\u201d and \u201cDont\u2019s\u201d posted on Google\u2019s Glass website, the tech giant highlights a number of central concerns around the subjectivities its wearable computing system is creating. High among them, the fear that \u201cGlassholes\u201d start living their lives as nonstop surveillance robots.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">One \u201cDo\u201d and a corresponding \u201cDon\u2019t\u201d advise \u201cexplorers\u201d to not use Glass to record others in their vicinity without permission:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">Dont: Be creepy or rude (aka, a \u201cGlasshole\u201d). Respect others and if they have questions about Glass don\u2019t get snappy. Be polite and explain what Glass does and remember, a quick demo can go a long way. In places where cell phone cameras aren\u2019t allowed, the same rules will apply to Glass. If you\u2019re asked to turn your phone off, turn Glass off as well. Breaking the rules or being rude will not get businesses excited about Glass and will ruin it for other Explorers.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It appears that Google is beginning to realize that its early adopters have all the social skills of a toaster, (perhaps less than said kitchen appliance if one considers the toaster from <i>Red Dwarf<\/i>), and this does not make them good ambassadors for the technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They are now giving glassholes instructions on how not to to be complete jerks: Google, in perhaps a tacit realization that it has spawned a small army of particularly insufferable cyborgs, has issued an etiquette manual for the first generation of Google Glass users (or \u201cGlass Explorers\u201d as they\u2019re called). With a list of unsolicited &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1218,1058,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-manners","category-sociology","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186355"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}