Brown, John Seely, and Paul Duguid. “A Response to Bill Joy and the Doom-and-Gloom Technofuturists.” 2000. Emerging Technologies: Ethics, Law and Governance, by Gary E. Marchant and Wendell Wallach, edited by Gary E. Marchant and Wendell Wallach, 1st ed., Routledge, 2020, pp. 65–71.

via: https://web.cs.ucdavis.edu/~koehl/Teaching/ECS188_W16/Reprints/Response_to_BillJoy.pdf

annotation URL: urn:x-pdf:1e8f84f1b5e3fb65dfe49ef6f173c79e

A reprint of: <br /> - “Re-Engineering the Future: A Response to Bill Joy and the doom-and-gloom technofuturists,” The Industry Standard, John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid. 24 April 2000, p.196. - “A Response to Bill Joy and the Doom-and-Gloom Technofuturists,” AAAS Science and Technology Policy Yearbook 2001, edited by Albert H. Teich, Stephen D. Nelson, Celia McEnaney and Stephen J. Lita, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2001.

Cross reference: Bill Joy's paper and notes at urn:x-pdf:753822a812c861180bef23232a806ec0

Internet technology accelerates connections. It does so beyond the human beings evolved ability to cope with inputs. As a result it will accelerate the bad portions of humanity of which there are many we gloss over too often with our rose colored glasses. If we don't approach the world from a humanistic perspective, the bad will swamp us.

The image of Hugh of Saint-Cher wearing glasses in the fresco at the former convent of San Niccolò, Chapter Room, Treviso, is an anachronism as their invention was decades following his death in 1263.

Image from: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:38_Ugo_da_San_Caro.jpg

Ugo da San Caro, serie dei Quaranta domenicani illustri, ex convento di San Niccolò, Sala del Capitolo, Treviso, 1352 (altezza di ciascun ritratto 150 cm circa) Image by Risorto Celebrano, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.

Thought to be one of the first images of a person wearing glasses. Image dated 1352.

https://enchroma.co.uk/collections/colour-blind-glasses

https://saltoptics.com/products/colorado-55-rx-agib

Ordered pair on 2023-12-29 Picked up on 2024-01-10

• real world experiment for = tracking eye movement
• in the real world along a 300 m path along the Danube river
• using special eye tracking glasses
• conclusion : beauty determines where we look and pay attention to

Augmented Reality can break down communication barriers – and help us better understand each other by making language visible. Google shows a preview of AR glasses yesterday that can translate speech in real-time. Although it's only a concept at the moment, the promise is incredible and underlines how #augmentedreality will increasingly & positively impact our daily lives.

This is a solid example of the sort of rose colored glasses too many had for technology in the early 2000s.

Was this instance just before the tech bubble collapsed too?

What was the state of surveillance capitalism at this point?

WABC. ‘Coronavirus: Glasses Wearers Less Likely to Get COVID, Study Says’. ABC7 New York, 24 February 2021. https://abc7ny.com/10365580/.

Trisha Greenhalgh 😷 #BlackLivesMatter on Twitter: “Mask steaming up your glasses? Fix here. https://t.co/Yn3wf7remH” / Twitter. (n.d.). Twitter. Retrieved July 7, 2020, from https://twitter.com/trishgreenhalgh/status/1279413188367454209