Now that it is "the morning after," however, I realize that a more critical issue is at stake. I appreciated that issue after returning to Rachel King's discussion of Google Glass features for ZDNet last May. The critical sentence from her text is the following:
The video recording feature was basically the star of the outrageous show when Glass was unveiled at Google I/O last year.It goes without saying that video capture of a San Francisco Symphony performance is strongly prohibited, even if the pre-performance announcement (inaudible last night due to the din of the crowd entering the hall) only cites the prohibition of photography. Google Glass is about to push us down a slippery slope where the intellectual property of the performing arts is concerned; and I fear that, once again, the nerds will triumph over the artists.
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What if humans had evolved with a built-in recording/playback system in their eyes and ears? The notion that one couldn't reproduce something would probably not even have arisen. There is every reason to believe that we will one day implant such capabilities directly into the neural paths from sense organs to brain. The world is just going to have to chill and deal with it.
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