truckspond said:
Rhykker said:
truckspond said:
Warps you across space when the plot demands it
That was before the JJ Abrams version - It was called Transwarp. http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Transwarp
Oh yeah, I remember that Voyager episode! They cut out about 15 years from their journey home using a borg transwarp conduit, right?
Yeah, that's exactly what I was thinking of. Then once they ran out of ideas for the story they just shouted "TRANSWARP CONDUIT" and the ship was back in our solar system
In all fairness, I think we all knew from day one that Voyager would travel for an arbitrary length of time equal to the number of seasons they could get aired and then they'd be plot deviced back home. I just assumed that when I was watching the first episode.
On to Google Glasses. I'm one of these camera haters and I am well aware this was a problem before now thanks to smartphones, cameras on cell phones and even digital cameras. Its just that with each iteration its been that much easier for that many more people to take pictures or even video. Yes you could buy specialized equipment but then your efforts would have to be more conscious and planned. But right now, you can just whip your smartphone out of your pocket and start filming whenever the mood strikes.
Google Glasses take it one step further. At least with smartphones, its pretty obvious that someone is filming you if you can see them. They're holding their phone with the camera pointed directly at you in a way that people don't normally hold their phones when they're browsing or texting. With Google Glasses, you're probably wearing your glasses whether you're actually using them or not, whether you're filming or using other apps. And you don't even have to pull your device out of your pocket. You just have to hit record to start filming what you're already looking at. Thats the problem.
Speaking for me personally, while I haven't made it a firm rule to avoid the outdoors, I already have shut in tendencies as more and more people do these days with all the gaming and media and online shopping you can get in the home. And knowing that, if I trip in public, someone may post a mean-spirited "fatty falls over" video on their Twitter gives me that much more reason to not leave the house. I'm not saying that its an absolute, but its one more thing that discourages me any time I think about leaving the house.