Comment Re:are google glass users ready for... (Score 1) 469
There's a hard limit on personal technology. It can't advance beyond the point where putting a pocket knife on someone's throat to steal it becomes a profitable job. That's why in most cyberpunk scenarios one of the technological advances is in self defense.
i.e.: There won't be ultra-tech glasses/contact lenses/etc unless someone thinks of a way of protecting the clients form increasingly profitable mugging.
Yes. That's why no one carries around internet-connected, handheld computers in their pockets today, and Google's pie in the sky ultra-tech glasses have never made it outside of lab demos. Because muggers will descend like a plague of locusts to consume them all.
Putting a knife to someone's throat for money has always been profitable job -- just a high risk one. The reason most cyberpunk scenarios include advances in self-defense is because they are worlds in which the fabric of society has been rent asunder, and human life is much cheaper. Not because the toys are so shiny that otherwise normal, law-abiding people just can't resist robbing people for them.