TechCrunch's nimble Jordan Crook has an interview with the venture capitalist John Backus.
A good way to figure out trends for the year is to talk to the people who actually invest in tech and make the trends happen.
Interestingly, Backus indicates that while Google Glass will be a big deal, it might prove a challenge with "too much information":
As far as consumer-facing technology is concerned, Google Glass seems to be of some interest to Backus (along with the entirety of the tech industry). Backus believes that the most valuable asset of Google Glass, and other wearable computing devices, is the amount of data these products can collect. “When you think about that much data, we are going to have to start thinking differently about the way we use this much data, and how we parse through it for the stuff that matters.”
Well, it's true, that if GG is going to be looking at your cat for much of the time or at the alarm clock on your bedside table for eight hours a night or be turned off or whatever, what good is it, really? Who will parse all that dreck?
Backus also sees great potential with Google Glass in the education sector. “The courses and the professors at a particular school are much less relevant,” he said. “It’s all about the community.”
No, it's about the professors and the courses. What, you're going to learn something from your fellow partying undergraduates?
Google is now in the process of field-testing GG's with what they consider "norms," i.e. non-developers, which is a little silly as they will still be friends of developers and have the $1500 or whatever to buy this expensive toy.
Sergey even put them on the runway at Fashion Week in New York recently to try to give them chic. Obviously people will wonder how putting those nerdy things on them will affect their looks.
Photo by Loic Lemeur.
Notice when the French tech entrepreneur Loic Lemeur wears them, they're perched above his eyes so he can still look out normally, but then if he wishes, look up into the GG.
But note when the guy from Infocux Technologies is trying them, he's looking through them as part of what seem to be his regular glasses -- or possibly wearing them *as* glasses.
Here's the official Google promo video, but like...your life consists of roller costers, skydiving, swordfights and holding poisonous snakes.
Quick, you're skydiving, and even if you're a pro, you're going to want to concentrate on things like when to pull your chute or whatever -- you're going to dial up Facebook and find your Skydivers' Club and GG them about your sky dive? Really? I think we're in for a LOT of bumpy amateur videos on Youtube!
And truly, how will Big IT find that Big Data in all of that? Will it be worth it?
Watch this, and you will be forgiven for thinking that Google Glass will make you able to skydive, land on a building, ride a bike to the side of it, climb down, and ride a bike up to the podium and talk to Sergey Brin.
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