I don’t wear shoes when I am at home. And I often don’t have my wallet on me. But both of these things are mandatory the moment I leave home.
But I do use my SmartPhone at home. In fact, I suspect people would be surprised if they couldn’t reach me by phone and I were to explain “Sorry, I was at home.”
Which makes me wonder — will we wear those future mixed reality glasses while we are at home? Will they be more like shoes and wallets or will they be more like phones?
My best guess is that we will wear them all the time when we are walking around on the street or shopping in a store. In fact, in pretty much any public place.
But at home we will wear them only when we specifically want to communicate with the outside world. Otherwise we will take them off, so we can enjoy some precious moments of peace and quiet.
William Wordsworth may have said it best:
The world is too much with us; late and soon,
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers;—
Little we see in Nature that is ours;
We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!
This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon;
The winds that will be howling at all hours,
And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers;
For this, for everything, we are out of tune;
It moves us not. Great God! I’d rather be
A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn;
So might I, standing on this pleasant lea,
Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn;
Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea;
Or hear old Triton blow his wreathèd horn.