The Post-Post-PC World  

Nick Bilton, on Google’s “secret” Glass project, at the NYT Bits Blog:

On Wednesday, Google gave people a clearer picture of its secret initiative called Project Glass. The glasses are the company’s first venture into wearable computing. […]

One person who had used the glasses said: “They let technology get out of your way. If I want to take a picture I don’t have to reach into my pocket and take out my phone; I just press a button at the top of the glasses and that’s it.”

The current Glass prototypes look kind of ridiculous, but the vision for this market is massive. Wearable/embedded computing is, obviously, the post-post-PC world. It’s just going to take a very long time to get there. Watch this incredible video Google released today; it’s certainly enticing:



But what’s the point of creating a “secret” laboratory, where “where engineers and scientists are working on robots and space elevators,” when your early prototypes are leaked to the New York Times? Why develop these transformative technologies in public? If you call something secret, and it’s not secret, I think of three possibilities: either you are not being genuine, you suck at secrecy, or you don’t believe in the project enough that you’d call its developments trade secrets.

Anyway, these wearable computers are awesome, I want one, and I’m glad Google is spending the time and money to research them.

 
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