Glass and Bars

Would you ever wear Google Glass into a bar? Can you even imagine the repercussions that might follow?I f you’re unfamiliar with Glass, as it’s called for short, it’s a set of glasses—sometimes prescription, sometimes not—that come with a little visible camera affixed. Glass can read your email, take videos, take photos, Google stuff for you, and in the not-too-distant future, instantly recognize faces at bars and tell you whom you’re talking to. Ok, first of all, no one wants to be recorded in a bar with a camera or internet phone services. People go to the bar for a reason and sometime things do not turn out the way they are supposed to and you end up with a night that you would much rather forget. But throw in Glass, and it is a whole other animal. Someone might think that it is funny and post it somewhere. You can see where this is going. But can we be honest? Facial recognition is going to be the saddest prospect of all. Because while bars can be places to make deals and break them, make out and break up, one of their primary lures is meeting people, sometimes people in whom one has a romantic interest. And Google Glass marks the end of mystique.