I am not a techy person. I try to keep up with modern technology—the latest gadgets, apps, whatever, but I feel like a prisoner to my computer, trapped in the portal of doom I call Windows 8.
There’s always something new, something to make life more convenient or social media more accessible. I’m still amazed by my “that’s so last year” iPhone 5s and my iPad mini from the Stone Age of 2013. I literally have no idea what will be invented next.
I tried on a pair of Google Glass, and all I could think about was mankind turning into the Borg from Star Trek Next Generation, a superior cyborg alien race that functions as drones to a single mind, the hive. Known as the Collective, the drones are basically half human, half machine, but are part of one entity.
I made a joke that once you buy a pair of Google Glass you are now part of the Collective—the Goog, but it freaked me out the more I thought about it.
You can take a photo with a wink of your eye. If someone wears Google Glass all the time, you will never know if that person is taking a picture or video of you. I heard a rumor that the next version of Google Glass will look like regular glasses. The Google Glass brings up ethical questions. Think about the privacy laws that will arise from all the sketchy pictures taken.
Wearable technology is extremely awesome, yet incredibly freaky. It seems like we are getting closer and closer to having technology embedded in our bodies. It seems farfetched, but not too far off. Google has already invented smart lenses that monitor blood-sugar levels for people with diabetes. We are slowly becoming the Collective.
If we channeled our innovation towards exploration, we could go to Mars. We could become the voyagers on the starship Enterprise and go where no one has gone before.
