This document discusses the implications of Google Glass and the privacy, social, and health concerns it raises. Google Glass is a revolutionary new wearable device that can record video, take pictures, get directions and more, all hands-free. However, questions remain about how user data will be collected and used by Google and other companies. There are also concerns that widespread Glass usage could negatively impact social interactions and further reduce attention spans, especially among younger users who have grown up with digital technologies. Wearable devices like Google Glass may continue to blur the line between public and private information sharing.

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The Implications
of Google Glass
By: James
Cochrane

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Technology is on
the brink of another
massive
spreading of a
breakthrough product…

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Google Glass
is the most
hotly
anticipated
new arrival
in “wearable
computing”
Source: Google Glass: is it a threat to our privacy?

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A revolutionary device
that can:
- Record videos
- Take pictures
- Stream live
- Answer questions
- Give directions
- Voice message
- Translate voice
All hands-free!

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Despite the innovation, Google is still facing a lot of questions…
…concerning privacy, social impacts and health concerns.

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For Google, “privacy” means “what you’ve agreed to”

7. Have you checked
your privacy
settings lately?
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We already live in a world where the boundaries of what’s
private and what’s public are melting
Source: Google Glass: is it a threat to our privacy?

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Where does all this data go?

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Google would use this breakthrough in data
collection to sell to corporations in order
to serve the ultimate goal of
making money

11. What about the social impact?
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12. Image: Search Engine People Blog (Flickr) Source: Google Glass: is it a threat to our privacy?
“Your one-on-one conversation with
someone wearing Google Glass is
likely to be annoying, because you'll
suspect that you don't have their
undivided attention.” - Mark Hurst

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Google Glass has
the potential to
make us more
inwardly focused
and less prone to
take part in real-life
conversations.
Source: What Will Google Glass Do to Our Brains?

14. Image: Lnk.Si (Flickr) Source: What Will Google Glass Do to Our Brains?
A study by researchers at the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill found that
the vagus nerve — which connects the heart and the
brain — was negatively affected by a lack of face-to-
face communication.

15. Is it possible
for our
technologically
driven, short
attention spans to
get any shorter?Image: espensorvik (Flickr)

16. Such distraction is a big risk with Google Glass.
Simply put, the human brain lacks a robust
parallel processing system.Image: Donald Lee Pardue (Flickr)

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Polled 2,462 middle and
high school teachers, 87%
report that these
technologies are creating "an
easily distracted generation
with short attention spans"
Source: Texting, TV and Tech Trashing Children's Attention Spans

18. …and 64% say that digital technologies "do more to
distract students than to help them academically."
Image: Renato Ganoza (Flickr) Source: Texting, TV and Tech Trashing Children's Attention Spans

19. What will this latest potential gadget do for
our generation?

20. Credits
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21. Sources
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/mar/06/google-glass-threat-
to-our-privacy
http://www.google.com/glass/start/what-it-does/
http://mashable.com/2013/04/17/what-will-google-glass-do-to-our-
brains/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ellen-galinsky/kids-and-
technology_b_2068862.html