I've been thinking about AR glasses (like Meta's stuff) for quite some time.

As an avid SciFi reader there's a very strong appeal to AR glasses as a precursor to inbuilt information overlays (think: Peter Hamilton's Commonwealth series, Neal Asher's Polity).

As someone with SDAM, the idea of being able to record things instantly that I may need later is also pretty appealing.

And with multi-sensory aphantasia, I'm sure there would be additional applied uses to such tech.

Also, I'm terrible at remembering names (I don't have face-amnesia, but with everything else, it takes me many meetings to properly link peoples names to faces).

So personally, you might say I'd be keen for these sorts of glasses and the tech they offer.

Except, I'm not. For all the personal benefits I could see of being able to use this sort of tech, the ethical and privacy concerns they represent massively outweigh any individual benefit, and until those issues are resolved, they should be banned. Not heavily regulated - because big tech always works out a way to squirm through or past regulations, but banned.

@backupbear see also LLM.