Remember back in 2014 when early adopters of Google Glass, the widely ridiculed face computer, were constantly getting punched in the face? That seems to be the internet’s collective memory of what happened to “glassholes” as they were dubbed, but the number of people who were physically assaulted was actually quite small. In fact, Gizmodo couldn’t find a single instance of someone getting properly punched in the face. And it perhaps speaks to how a small handful of incidents can come to define the backlash against a product as Meta’s smartglasses experience a similar kind of public anger.
To be clear, the backlash against Google Glass was…
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