Ugh, everytime new #SmartGlasses are presented masses of people are crooning how absolutely cool that is. Think about it a bit more, folks, I'd say.
The moment smart glasses become well accepted and pervasive in society, is the moment we know that shite really hit the fan, and we are deep in dystopia.
It is not unthinkable we get a high adoption rate, if those #AR info overlays provide real use to people.
Compare to driving from A to B which hardly anyone can do anymore withouth #Google Maps.
Of course big tech as we know it today would never build something like that.
Though if this were personal tech, will likely be still quite dystopic. Everyone filming each other all of the time, keeping that data around for all kinds of processing.
I would not like to live in such a society.
There's the idea that they could be and you wouldn't know it, but that's already true; an Amazon search for "spy camera glasses" gets me a bunch of options that do that for under $50.
Even without recording video (which is hypothetical, as you don't know what software people are running), the detailed metadata that becomes possible can be highly undesirable.
Anyway, we are in worse situation with big tech and their AI, so there's that. Preparing for a Luddite life in a remote log cabin, I guess :D
The saddest thing about driving is you can't find paper maps at the gas station or book store anymore.
Side note: I'd love to sit down with a Rand McNally map and teach someone how to read it and to plan a route. There's always been some magic in paper maps that can't be explained but must be experienced.
That is really sad indeed. And I agree, though I remember the fumbling-in-car with unfolded map and split in the road coming up ahead, could be stressful at times. But that had its charms too.
Now it is also a kind of resilience thing. Some serious conflict, underseas internet cables get cut.. aaand, its navigating based on the sun and stars again :)
I've been using Here WeGo (Proprietary) (formerly Here Maps) because they offer 100% usable offline, downloadable maps and navigation that has never failed me in about 12 years.
Since my sensibilities regarding software freedom have evolved since, I've now downloaded Organic Maps (Available on F-Droid) that offers the same, but I haven't put it through its paces yet.
Yes, I posted about Organic Maps one or 2 years ago, and it was a very popular toot.
Yet as things go in software freedom world, not everything has gone well since, and there was first an open letter and then a fork of the project..
https://openletter.earth/open-letter-to-organic-maps-shareholders-a0bf770c
Do you mind giving a synopsis of what is happening with Organic Maps and why the fork?
This is what I know, I am not using organic maps, just saw this pass by. The links I added should outline most of the background I think.
This is a bonfire demo instance for testing purposes
