Let’s say you are walking down an urban street late at night. There is nobody else around.<\/p>\n
A car pulls up and several people get out of it. One or more of them may be carrying a gun.<\/p>\n
They demand that you hand over your belongings. Of course you do, because you really have no choice.<\/p>\n
Now imagine it is several years into the future. You and everyone you know are wearing smart-glasses.<\/p>\n
You use your glasses for all of the things you might now do with your phone or a card in your wallet, including shopping for groceries, entering a secure office building, paying your subway fare, and getting directions from Google Maps.<\/p>\n
But unlike your phone, those glasses will be recording everything you see, all the time. So the moment those people approach you, their faces are already entering a database, and being matched to a list of possible identities.<\/p>\n
In the future nobody is going to be crazy enough to try to rob you. On balance, this may be good.<\/p>\n
Of course, there are real downsides to everyone having the power to record everything around them. But that’s a topic for another day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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