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Seattle Restaurant Ejects Customer Wearing Google Glass

Shame on the business owner for being a technophobic luddite. No one appears to have complained. This is just an example of someone being unprepared to adapt to the realities of new technology. People like him will crop up, but as people of my generation continue to fan out into wider society they will disappear.

Liberty-haters wish to force private property owners to surrender their rights.
 
Your opinion noted. Sometimes toys need to be left at home.

Is your cellphone a toy? Maybe to you. Not to most of us and we'd be more than miffed if a restaurant told us to leave it at home. This is obviously a generational gap.
 
Not crazy about this whole thing. If it was just a means of linking to the Internet, I wouldn't care... but it has a outward facing camera, which makes it intrinsically a problem vs privacy.


Being seen is one thing. Being filmed is another.
 
Shirt and shoes are typically demanded because of standards of decency and decor for an establishment as well as hygiene. This is simple fear of technology. We aren't entitled, no one has said he should be forced to let people wearing Glass to his restaurant. What we are saying is that it is foolish. Like I said before this sentiment will erode as our generation and the ones that will come after us take to the fore.

As liberty-ignorant generations come of age, we'll surrender our right to privacy to the govt and businesses.
 
Liberty-haters wish to force private property owners to surrender their rights.

Oh my god. No one in this thread has said he should be forced to accept people who wear Glass. I'm personally a firm supporter of employer and property owner sovereignty. This isn't what we've been talking about.
 
Seattle Restaurant Ejects Customer Wearing Google Glass « CBS Seattle



Good on the business owner for protecting his customers.

Really I like the idea that private businesses can do as they will.....
HOWEVER, personally I don't see the point, .... that is, if someone is seated
at a table using their electronic toy, whatever that toy may be, as long as said
toy doesn't disturb anyone else, & isn't illegal or something like public display of porn
( or? ) live & let live .... whatever, what is the harm in having somebody using "googleglass"
at a restaurant?
 
Is your cellphone a toy? Maybe to you. Not to most of us and we'd be more than miffed if a restaurant told us to leave it at home. This is obviously a generational gap.

"That" generation invented what your generation takes for granted. Your condescension is duly noted.
 
Shirt and shoes are typically demanded because of standards of decency and decor for an establishment as well as hygiene. This is simple fear of technology. We aren't entitled, no one has said he should be forced to let people wearing Glass to his restaurant. What we are saying is that it is foolish. Like I said before this sentiment will erode as our generation and the ones that will come after us take to the fore.

Don't be so sure. Not all people are so egocentric, even if many in your generation are. Fortunately, as people grow up, they grow out of their egocentricity or they become immune to rejection.
 
As liberty-ignorant generations come of age, we'll surrender our right to privacy to the govt and businesses.

Your concept of privacy is already dead. Except for some of the older members of my generation we've never known much about it. We accept that FB or Google uses algorithms to monitor our search metadata, we accept that Amazon tracks our purchases, we accept that map applications record routes for data accumulation. Broadly speaking (there are always exceptions) it doesn't really cause that much of a bother. We'll get along just fine.
 
Really I like the idea that private businesses can do as they will.....
HOWEVER, personally I don't see the point, .... that is, if someone is seated
at a table using their electronic toy, whatever that toy may be, as long as said
toy doesn't disturb anyone else, & isn't illegal or something like public display of porn
( or? ) live & let live .... whatever, what is the harm in having somebody using "googleglass"
at a restaurant?

Not when it goes straight to Google's database, user ignorant or not.
 
Your concept of privacy is already dead. Except for some of the older members of my generation we've never known much about it. We accept that FB or Google uses algorithms to monitor our search metadata, we accept that Amazon tracks our purchases, we accept that map applications record routes for data accumulation. Broadly speaking (there are always exceptions) it doesn't really cause that much of a bother. We'll get along just fine.

We all accept it, but you accept it with open arms.
 
Don't be so sure. Not all people are so egocentric, even if many in your generation are. Fortunately, as people grow up, they grow out of their egocentricity or they become immune to rejection.

Egocentric? Good grief. It isn't egocentric to acknowledge the fact that this is nothing more than a palpable fear of new technology and an inability to adjust to a new world with regards to privacy.
 
"That" generation invented what your generation takes for granted. Your condescension is duly noted.

And those who've invented it by definition appear to have accepted it. Moreover that isn't really here nor there. The inventors of the automobile never anticipated the massive social changes that would come from affordable personal transportation as the sexes intermingled, young people traveled further from their parents, etc. Many hardly approved, but these sentiments were weeded out as time wore on. Today those attitudes towards youth independence and sexual liaisons would be totally alien in most parts of the country. The same will be true of this in another thirty or forty years if not sooner.
 
Egocentric? Good grief. It isn't egocentric to acknowledge the fact that this is nothing more than a palpable fear of new technology and an inability to adjust to a new world with regards to privacy.

Nonsense - it's about decorum in public and respect for others. Perhaps you'd like to explain what is so pressing and urgent as it relates to eating a meal that requires a person to be actively streaming it and storing it. People are technically capable of doing all kinds of things while they eat - doesn't mean they are acceptible behaviour in a restaurant.
 
Wearing google glass is the equivalent of camera that is always on. A cell phone might have a camera, but it becomes physically obvious when someone is using it. If someone sat in a restaurant videoing other customers with a camera, they'd probably be asked to leave as well.

Technology shouldn't be feared, but it should be used with respect for others. People have a reasonable right to sit down and have dinner in a privater restaurant without being recorded by random strangers without cause.
 
Wearing google glass is the equivalent of camera that is always on. A cell phone might have a camera, but it becomes physically obvious when someone is using it. If someone sat in a restaurant videoing other customers with a camera, they'd probably be asked to leave as well.

Technology shouldn't be feared, but it should be used with respect for others. People have a reasonable right to sit down and have dinner in a privater restaurant without being recorded by random strangers without cause.
Google needs to put a light on it, so people know when it's on.
 
Nonsense - it's about decorum in public and respect for others. Perhaps you'd like to explain what is so pressing and urgent as it relates to eating a meal that requires a person to be actively streaming it and storing it. People are technically capable of doing all kinds of things while they eat - doesn't mean they are acceptible behaviour in a restaurant.

I presume you think it would be laudable and appropriate for restaurant owners to begin banning smartphones in restaurants? I suspect not. The reason is that you, like most others, have become acculturated to it and tolerate (even if you don't like it) that people will browse the internet, take photos, and text while doing just about anything. This is the exact same thing. Give it time and it will be allowed everywhere. It is inevitable. Attempting to project your notion of manners and decorum will fail in the face of technological and cultural inertia.
 
Wearing google glass is the equivalent of camera that is always on. A cell phone might have a camera, but it becomes physically obvious when someone is using it. If someone sat in a restaurant videoing other customers with a camera, they'd probably be asked to leave as well.

Technology shouldn't be feared, but it should be used with respect for others. People have a reasonable right to sit down and have dinner in a privater restaurant without being recorded by random strangers without cause.

Millions of photos and videos are taken in restaurants, clubs, and the like all the time. Social media and scandal sites thrive on it. When I slant my phone you have no way of knowing if I'm taking a photo of your food, videotaping your kids tantrum, or looking something up on wikipedia. It isn't something people think of because they are so inured to it. This is dramatically new and so it inspires fear and caution. That will change as time wears on until it is ubiquitous.
 
I presume you think it would be laudable and appropriate for restaurant owners to begin banning smartphones in restaurants?

I would certainly understand it if they wished to do so.
 
I presume you think it would be laudable and appropriate for restaurant owners to begin banning smartphones in restaurants? I suspect not. The reason is that you, like most others, have become acculturated to it and tolerate (even if you don't like it) that people will browse the internet, take photos, and text while doing just about anything. This is the exact same thing. Give it time and it will be allowed everywhere. It is inevitable. Attempting to project your notion of manners and decorum will fail in the face of technological and cultural inertia.

And I'll hopefully be dead and long gone before the world is overrun with people browsing, taking photos, texting and doing just about anything anywhere they want at any time. Why limit it to tech toys? Why not satisfy your sexual needs in public too?
 
I think they're within their rights, but when you think about it they didn't protect anyone from anything. If you have a cell phone, tablet or laptop, you either do have, or potentially have all the same technology right there. So unless they're banning all cell phones and tablets, it's really a useless gesture.

Many finer establishments do ban the "use" of various technology in their dining rooms. You can have it with you, but you can't activate it and use it at your table. The problem with this technology is that it isn't readily apparent it's in use.
 
And I'll hopefully be dead and long gone before the world is overrun with people browsing, taking photos, texting and doing just about anything anywhere they want at any time. Why limit it to tech toys? Why not satisfy your sexual needs in public too?

Too late. That's the world you already live in. This is simply another iteration of that.
 
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