Technology: The
Catalyst For American Laziness
Part Two:
Google Glass, A Newest Danger
Describing the danger and uselessness of Google Glass
As time has progressed, our lives
have gotten easier and our country has gotten lazier. Almost every basic task
that you once had to move in order to accomplish has been eliminated in
exchange for a more “efficient” way to do it. Yet I myself, along with the rest
of this technology-stricken country, am a victim of this. We get caught up in
all of the fascinating different technologies and forget the simple aspects of
life that make it enjoyable. But I’m afraid this problem is only getting worse.
The next “big idea” is here, and they are taking this idea of “efficiency” to
the extreme.
The whole idea of the product I’m
talking about is wearable technology, more or less, a wearable smart phone.
Google glass is a pair of glasses that you wear and it shares a lot of similar
features with smart phones. It’s an idea that was first displayed in Star Trek (Google Glass: Yes). It connects to your phone and share a lot of
the same features, but with this new technology it saves you the trouble of
getting your phone out of your pocket! Because that is such an exasperating
task, America is just too lazy to pull out their smart phones that already do
everything else for them.
Google glass
is a very intriguing technology, but just isn’t necessary. There is no need for
you to basically wear a phone on your face! But with all of this new technology
coming out, it just leads to people wanting more. Every time something new
comes out and takes care of an old problem or need, something else is made to
fill the newly created wants, and this cycle is always continuing. Our country
has progressed from land lines to basic cell phones to smart phones and now to
a glasses phone? The new technologies take away things you have to do yourself,
with things that can be accomplished with a press of a button, in turn as
technology gets more advanced our country gets lazier and less active. The
Google glass doesn’t have actual lenses and all of the micro chips and smart
phone data are kept on the right side of the glasses (Google Glass: Explorer). There is a small square in the corner, the “glass” part
that is what you see. To activate and
use it you can touch the sensor in the corner or say, “okay Glass” then tell it
what to do (Google).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1uyQZNg2vE (represents a view while wearing Google
Glass.)
This product may be a big hit and it may not, but for the
sake of our country it would be more beneficial if it didn’t. We are very
technologically advanced as it is, these super glasses, are unnecessary to add
to an already lazy country. This is merely one example of the dangerous effects
all this new technology can have, and there is plenty more out there.
Works cited
"Google Glass Apps: Everything
You Can Do Right Now." The Verge. N.p., n.d. Web. 18 Apr. 2014.
Google Glass Explorer Edition: Explained! Youtube. N.p., 30 Aug. 2013.
Web. 18 Apr. 2014. <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elXk87IKgCo>.
"Google Glass: Yes, It's That Bad." InfoWorld.
N.p., n.d. Web. 18 Apr. 2014.
<http://www.infoworld.com/d/application-development/google-glass-yes-its-bad-228478>.
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