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Zuckerberg can keep his dystopian digital world and shove it. My digital world is free of surveillance and doesn't require AI anything - let alone glasses.

That's exactly what someone selling AI glasses would say

I don't want an advantage. I want to sit on a log in the forest, listen to the birds chirp, and eat snacks.

Go zuck yourself fuckerberg

Zuck says a lot of things. Reprinting his sales pitches as news is a disservice.

The glasses let users listen to music, take photos or videos, and ask Meta AI questions...

so... there is no benefit to wearing them.

i would love a new technology that does something groundbreaking (though only if it has an open source equivalent; im not buying anything from facebook), but this doesnt seem like it.

"Anyone who's not in the metaverse will be at a disadvantage in the future"

-Zuck, a while back, probably.

Kiss your privacy goodbye when someone with these on looks at you if you're not wearing a mask, you've just been geolocated.

Also as soon as Apple copies this you are going to see them everywhere in the West, the only thing holding it back now is no one cares about a Meta product.

no we fucking wont because nobody but the dumbest motherfuckers on earth who have disposable income are gonna buy them. what are we going to be disadvantaged at? we’re going to be able to actually use our eyeballs and not have zuckerberg feed us VR ads every 30 seconds

this stupid pig isnt in any governmental position so all i gotta say is i hope someone stabs him or blows his stupid ass up. worthless fucking idiot

Metaverse? Smart Glasses? Didn't this nonsense come and go ten years ago?

clown shoes salesman says people without clown shoes will be at a disadvantage in the future

I always remember this strip

The world is going to be so boring when everyone is walking around with these things, even more oblivious and in their own worlds, with all the answers right there. No need to even speak to anyone anymore except for small talk and who likes that? I'm not going to be a walking surveillance robot which is what I really feel is the end game with this crap, zero privacy.

I'd actually prefer to see Godot games/apps for cardboard developed, now that's so easy to do it

And people without a million dollars in the bank will be disadvantaged in the future too, but here we are.

Pass

I’ve been hearing this for a while now. Wasn’t the same thing said about Google glass?

This is assuming that people get advantage from knowledge, expertise, and competency. In reality advantage comes from conforming to social norms, connections/nepotism/networking, race/class/sexuality, being able bodied and neurotypical, and having a personality that lends itself towards being organized, goal oriented, routine oriented, and more easily tolerating drudgery.

People aren't going to do this because social connections give more power than knowledge and people are weirded out by this shit. What might actually happen is that certain employers may force their employees to wear similar technology for some reason.

This the cognitive disadvantage you're speaking of?

"Gargoyles represent the embarrassing side of the Central Intelligence Corporation. Instead of using laptops, they wear their computers on their bodies, broken up into separate modules that hang on the waist, on the back, on the headset. They serve as human surveillance devices, recording everything that happens around them. Nothing looks stupider; these getups are the modern-day equivalent of the slide-rule scabbard or the calculator pouch on the belt, marking the user as belonging to a class that is at once above and far below human society. They are a boon to Hiro because they embody the worst stereotype of the CIC stringer. They draw all of the attention. The payoff for this self-imposed ostracism is that you can be in the Metaverse all the time, and gather intelligence all the time."

What the hell does he know about real life and disadvantages? I’ll be without them for life. At least anything Meta or the like have a hand in. Poor me. 😄

I don't know. Not getting punched in the face has it's advantages.

Not just a disadvantage, a cognitive disadvantage. @grok is this true?????????? my critical thinking skills have atrophied to nothing now that i rely on ai, i need u gronk

(slaps forehead) Of course! People without AI glasses will miss out on all those free knuckle sandwiches that people with AI glasses will be offered everywhere they go!

I recently saw someone post that the stuff Zuck comes up with shows has no friends. I'm starting to believe that to be true.

Get fucked, Zuck.

Rich man who had [stole] one good idea desperately tries to sell his next stupid product.

Is not being shoved ads in my face a disadvantage?

Remind me how many hot dinners he could have fed starving children instead of funding the Metaverse project?

Ok grok, give my boss big badonkadonks

Going by the thumbnail, it looks like an ad from MAD magazine for spy glasses.

Oh wait…

According to the John Carpenter documentary "They Live", the glasses are supposed to reveal the underlying truth, not mask it.

I have perfect eye sight, can they make a buttplug version?

I'll be fine without your stupid glasses douche bag, thanks anyway

And why should anyone care what he says?

I’m all for wearables if I can have battery that last a week, a month else it is just nonsense.

Something something, Sugarmountain tries to push a project again that will probably fail, like so many before.

Is that because of the free surgery he's going to give everyone who wears his obnoxious AI glasses and then subsequently gets punched in the face? Is that why we're going to be at a disadvantage, Mark?

So he's saying one day it may make sense to get one? Great sales pitch.