Google Glass’s Scary Vision

The advent of Google Glass establishes one incontrovertible fact and raises at least two unanswerable questions. The fact: Yes, you do look fairly ridiculous wearing it. The questions: Are we finally becoming cyborgs? And is this a good thing?

Glass is a computer that can be worn like a pair of spectacles, with a small screen above one eye. It can record video, audio and location data. It can connect wirelessly to a smart phone, so you can send text messages, check e-mail, make phone calls and use maps without reaching into your pocket. Google Inc. hopes that developers, a few thousand of whom now have the devices, will dream up even more wondrous uses.