Design and Architecture
Google Glass: Our Cyborgian Future or Pointless Gizmo?
Betsy Moyer and Bianca Bosker try out Google Glass and share the experience. Is Glass a window into our Cyborgian future? Or a gizmo in search of a reason to exist?
By Frances Anderton • • 28m ListenWe have all heard endlessly about Google Glass. On today’s show, we get the prognosis from two women who have tried it. Is Glass -- singular -- a window into a Cyborgian future made real? Or a gizmo without purpose that’ll join the dust-heap of bad tech ideas? With Betsy Moyer and Bianca Bosker. Plus, a taste of future living micro-scale, withKatrina Stoll Szabo, Alan Hess, Takako Tajima, Michael Maltzan, Todd Gish, and Liz Falletta.
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3 storiesBetsy on Campus with Google Glass
Google Glass is in its alpha, as in first, phase of testing and Google cleverly created interest by inviting people to compete to try out Glass, and then charged $1500 for the privilege. Among those who won the opportunity was KCRW’s very own digital content director, Betsy Moyer.
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In case you’ve been out of the tech news loop recently, Google Glass – singular -- looks and sounds like some sci-fi spectacles. But it doesn’t aid your eyesight. Rather, Glass gives and takes information.
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On show right now in LA are two fascinating exhibits: " How Small is Too Small " and " By Right By Design. " They are in one space – WUHO – at 6518 Hollywood Boulevard, and they explore the future of shrinking dwelling space in LA (shown, a 10 x 30 square feet micro unit constructed in WUHO's space, for How Small is Too Small).
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