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throwaway29303 ◴[] No.37744780[source]
It seems only a few learned a thing with Google Glass[0]. These devices are way ahead of our time. We're currently in a time and space where implementing these ideas only serve to tighten the elite's control over people.

Stop producing these things. Thank you.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Glass#Criticism

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qup ◴[] No.37747267[source]
Not if only the elites use 'em!
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1. TeMPOraL ◴[] No.37748586[source]
Yes, but ironically.

More specifically, devices like this are cool when not widely known or adopted.

As for "elite control", "elite" ain't controlling shit here - they're just peddling things to general population and raking it in. Outside of misplaced paranoia about government (misplaced in that spooks don't wait for surveillance equipment to be available off-the-shelf), people aren't worried about elites, they're worried about each other - randos on the streets being creeped out by other randos on the street. Society doesn't have the levels of kindness and trust to tolerate these kinds of technologies. Which is a shame, given the positives.

(Of course those technologies being developed by advertising companies isn't a good thing, but notice how hardly anyone talks about that. People are too creeped out by each other, and not enough by advertisers.)