"Apple’s ambition is that customers will eventually wear the device continuously all day, replacing daily tasks done on an iPhone or a Mac such as playing games, browsing the web, emailing, doing FaceTime video calls while collaborating in apps, working out and even meditating. It will feature hand and eye control and run many of the kinds of apps found on Apple’s other devices."
This concept has been well-explored in science fiction, and it doesn't look good.
See "Hyperreality"[1] for one of the best visualizations. That's all too realistic.
There's a line in Ready Player One:
"We call this Pure O2.
This is the first of our planned upgrades.
Once we can roll back some of Halliday's ad restrictions,
we estimate we can sell up to 80% of an individual's visual field before inducing seizures."
I was expecting that from Zuckerberg/Meta/Oculus.
Remember Google Glass? People wearing those were called "Glassholes". What to call people who wear this? "iDweebs"?
The hypothetical dystopia you've invented here doesn't follow at all from even the worst behavior of the actual Apple company. Why do you assume that "having an app floating around in your field of vision" is automatically the same thing as "80% of your visual field filled with ads"?
> The hypothetical dystopia you've invented here doesn't follow at all from even the worst behavior of the actual Apple company.
It takes a while to get there. Google started out ad-free. Google Search has now achieved "80% of your visual field filled with ads". Apple used to be ad-free. No longer.[1]
This concept has been well-explored in science fiction, and it doesn't look good. See "Hyperreality"[1] for one of the best visualizations. That's all too realistic.
There's a line in Ready Player One:
"We call this Pure O2. This is the first of our planned upgrades. Once we can roll back some of Halliday's ad restrictions, we estimate we can sell up to 80% of an individual's visual field before inducing seizures."
I was expecting that from Zuckerberg/Meta/Oculus.
Remember Google Glass? People wearing those were called "Glassholes". What to call people who wear this? "iDweebs"?
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJg02ivYzSs
[2] https://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/movie_script.php?mo...