Blog post #3

This article discusses how the Dubai police will be stocking up on Google Glass very soon. Google Glass is offering a new facial recognition technology that will cross reference with a database filled with wanted criminal's mugshots and then alert the police when a wanted person is spotted. Dubai government is prepared to spend $1,500 per pair in order to be the ultimate crime-fighting city even though they are still recovering from the 2009 debt crisis. But don't worry, at least the police won't have to slow down their Lamborghinis too much when patrolling, now that their new Google Glasses are catching criminals for them. Even though my intro to this article clearly oozes with my distain and sarcasm, i still found the technology behind this article worth discussing. The fact that Google is now integrating this facial recognition technology into their glass is a huge step in technology's advancement, on the other hand, it could potentially do more harm than good to our society in the long run. If this technology becomes accessible to the public, and all Google Glass users, then how will that affect our societies communication skills? What if we all start our own personal "databases" of "friends" we have met, instead of bothering to remember their names and faces, we would become dependent on this technology to do it for us so that we can spend our time and energy with more important things instead of silly human relationships. As soon as i saw this article i thought of myself walking down the street, i recognize someone but i don't remember their name or where i met them, lucky for me my google glasses I.D. them and show me a list of our encounters, how we know each other, and some basic facts about them. Woo, crisis adverted. Seems awesome at first, but then once you think deeper about when our society becomes acclimated to technologies like this, what will become of us? We are already pretty anti-social with our dependency on social media, how much deeper will technologies like this dig us into our lonesome little holes? Food for thought...