This is the year things get weird.
– Bryce Roberts, Web 2.0 Ends With Data Monopolies
Bryce is referring to the profound changes in the technological infrastructure our culture sits on, as we start to create nearly unimaginable amounts of data — both personalized and anonymized — through the streams of our existence.
The proximate cause to this insight is the new demo video of Google glasses (or goggles), and Bryce’s realization that Google might be in a position to track literally everything we see (at least with the glasses on). Every product you reject and put back on the shelf, every plate of food, every friend (and stranger) you pass in the street, every store you enter, every breath you take, every move you make, they’ll be watching you.
But I still want them. Which is weird.
(via stoweboyd)