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Comment by ChuckNorris89 | Hacker News Reader

>I'd imagine that we'd all be wearing AR glasses by now.

Am I the asshole here for being happy that future never came to pass?

People are already zombies addicted to their phones, tracked and monetized to hell by advertisers, so I feel like gluing it to their eyes with cameras constantly scanning everything they look at, is some dystopian nightmare I never want to see.

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I think that content producers are very interested in technology that closes the analog hole more and more. The first step were streaming services so that you would not be able to own content anymore. The second step is wide adoption of technology that gets closer and closer to your brain. First there were cinemas then TVs then smartphones then AR glasses and in the future there will be DRM enabled brain implants so that you are personally locked out if you don't pay these companies. And over time, people will get used to it more and more. Just like today you have to pay 6 different subscriptions to watch the movies you like. Or install spyware if you want to play a game you paid for.

It sure might be a dystopian hellhole. But at least some shareholders got rich.

What's worse, same as with most emails going through google and people tagging each other on photos, you can be as savvy as you want and your image will be on other people's video feed all the time.

I would be very surprised if this weren't the case within 5-10y tops.

Yeah this, for better or worse, seems inevitable as the computers in our pockets inch closer and closer to our brains where we can use them seamlessly and continually.

Yep, and I suppose it's even more likely now that GPT4 can take images as inputs.

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