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A BEAUTIFUL
MIND
Tahoe restaurant, where every
single person was just looking at
their phone while they were having dinner together. That made
me so sad because they have this
brief of moment of time with their
family and they should just enjoy
each other,” Thrun recalls. “I can’t
tell if Google Glass has succeeded, but it’s a really big emotional
thing for me: having the technology that we love and connections
that bring us to other people.
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Technology is synonymous for
connection with other people.”
Maybe.
A cellphone can slip into a
pocket and be temporarily out of
sight. Google Glasses are at eye
level and constantly in your face,
or on someone else’s face. Making
it easier to snap and share photos
all but guarantees we’ll take more
of them and share more of them,
thus connecting ourselves more
directly to the people who aren’t
present. Surveillance—and documentation—will become more
pervasive as well in a world full of
Thrun speaks
with Jason
Tanz, the
New York
editor of
Wired, at
a Wired
Business
Conference
on May 1.