hautepop: “For all of the flaws of 20th century critical theory - its obtuseness, its abandonment of the ordinary reader - it also made it impossible to look at words as transparent conduits of meaning. Instead, we had no choice but to see the webs of power and ideas that they wove and we wove with them. [Google’s] Project Glass [concept video for AR glasses] and its tantalizingly close promise of augmented reality, demands we do the same for the world of digital technology: to acknowledge that we cannot simply put on and take off glasses that color our world; instead, we can only exchange one ambivalent, culturally loaded pair for another.” Google Glasses and the Myth of Augmented Reality, The Atlantic

hautepop:

“For all of the flaws of 20th century critical theory - its obtuseness, its abandonment of the ordinary reader - it also made it impossible to look at words as transparent conduits of meaning. Instead, we had no choice but to see the webs of power and ideas that they wove and we wove with them. [Google’s] Project Glass [concept video for AR glasses] and its tantalizingly close promise of augmented reality, demands we do the same for the world of digital technology: to acknowledge that we cannot simply put on and take off glasses that color our world; instead, we can only exchange one ambivalent, culturally loaded pair for another.”

Google Glasses and the Myth of Augmented Reality, The Atlantic