Google Glass has been a hot topic lately and many people have shown concern over the privacy and safety issues surrounding Google’s newest product. There is already a proposed amendment  out of West Virginia to ban driver’s from wearing the Glass and many businesses have already planned to ban people from wearing the Glass inside their establishments including casinos, movie theaters, and even some restaurants. There is also a campaign called “Stop The Cyborgs” which warns against using Google Glass because they see it as the end of privacy altogether and they have called on Google to put certain measures in place to make sure some damage control is done, including getting rid of facial recognition software. Google responded to the backlash claiming that people will eventually soften up to the idea and social norms will change to allow the Glass to be better accepted into society. I also recently read this article: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=google-glass-smartglass-competition which seems to predict that most people will be wearing the Glass within the next couple of years and that many different companies will be coming out with their take on the smartglasses. The article also mentions new applications for the smartglasses not just as the new cellphone for the average consumer but as a new tool for certain occupations such as the engineering, healthcare, and law enforcement fields. It even gives an example of a surgeon wearing the smartglasses while operating on their patient, which I find pretty frightening. Do you think that smartglasses will become the next big thing and improve the way we do our jobs and live our lives or will the issues of privacy and safety become too problematic?