I think outgassing or other effect is much more likely than RF energy from the router preventing seeds from germinating. It's not neccessarily the plastics that are outgassing -- Maybe cheap electrolytic capacitors or other components are venting.

The difference between publishing the words to a book and showing a game is that everyone buys a book to read the words, but few (?) people buy a game just to watch someone else play it. Otherwise, game makers wouldn't have to actually create games, they could just sell pre-canned videos of what game play would look like if they actually produced the game.

It's a good thing there's no way to use stolen credentials to do searches anonymously!

The control would have to be a router that's powered on but not transmitting to account for the possibility of outgassing or some other effect from the router (magnetic field from the power supply? Flashing Light from the router disrupting the plant's growing cycle?). Maybe replacing the antennas with terminators to eliminate (mostly) transmissions while leaving the transmitter active would be a better control.

That's why it's important to bring these issues up now - before they become integrated into humans. Maybe an indicator (maybe visual, or maybe an RF beacon) to indicate recording?

Cloud storage is already growing up, Amazon Glacier will store 3.5GB of video for 3.5 cents/month

That's what people used to think about their online accounts "No one's going to care about my online shopping account". Yet new data breaches seem to be a daily occurance.

The plumber's friend robbing me has always been a risk. Having a data breach that releases a data about everything valuable in my home (as well as opening new social engineering attacks where the attacker knows in intimate detail the layout and contents of your home) is the new risk that ubiquitous video recording can lead to.

"I'm sorry sir, I can't take these off, these are my prescription eye glasses, but don't worry I'm not going to record anything... *wink* We can send another guy out next Wednesday that doesn't wear glasses, but you'll still need to pay me the $75 service visit fee..."

Storage densities have historically increased and prices decreases over time... What's impossible today becomes much easier and cheaper 5 - 10 years from now. 18 hours/day of 5000kbit video streamed for a year is "only" 10TB - less than $500 worth of SATA disk space. Amazon Glacier can store that much data for $100/month.

I think few people are concerned with Google Glass *today* when only a few thousand people have them, but are more concerned with when prices come down and they are much more prevalent.

I think Google intends the camera to be an integral part of the Google Glass experience, or they'd just drop the camera which gets rid of the most controversial part of the device (distraction while driving is still a concern, but most people seem more concerned with its ability to surreptitiously take photos/video).

The current generation of GG may be battery and power constrained, but future versions likely will not be. Once you have the ability to record everything and archive indefinitely, why wouldn't you just record everything just in case you want to refer to it later? Especially as image recognition and searching gets better, so it's easy to refer to something that's been recorded. The plumber might get a call from the homeowner a year after his last visit about their kitchen sink and the plumber can run a query like "Google: Show me the kitchen sink from the home on 1920 Sycamore St". And anyone who has access to the plumber's account could run a query like "Google: Show me all paintings from all houses visited in the past 6 months, ordered by estimated value"

That depends how you define "public" since Google Glass may be worn in places that aren't traditionally "public" like restrooms, gym locker rooms, etc. I don't really care if you peek over from the next urinal and watch me pee, but that doesn't mean that I want you capture it with your glasses and post it to Youtube. Likewise if I hire a plumber to fix my leaky bathroom faucet, I'm fine with him snapping a few photos of the bathroom sink so he can get the right parts, but I don't want him using Google Glass to record everything in my house on his way to the bathroom which could be exploited (by him or someone who hacked his Glasses) to build a database of attractive theft targets along with a detailed map of everything of value in the house.

Cameras (even ubiquitous cell phone cameras) are a known risk and it's generally easy to see someone recording with their cell phone, but Google Glass becomes a "hidden in plain view" spy cam.

I've heard that before. These new fangled PC's in everyone's home will make datacenters a thing of the past! Cloud computing will make home computers a thing of the past! New 4GL languages will make developers a thing of the past! New spreadsheets will make business software developers a thing of the past! New point-and-click GUI's will make web developers a thing of the past!

So far, things just seem to be getting more and more complicated, requiring more and more people to run them.

Is that some new Windows phone?

How starting with a rat? With only 56 million neurons, it's 3 orders of magnitude easier.

They need another datacenter to hold the computers that track the cost savings from the other datacenters.

Except, of course, for the fact that safe driving involves more than reflexes and response time - if you want to remove the least safe drivers from the road, that would be drivers under the age of 24 - they have a much higher accident rate than average (even higher than drivers over 75). But it's the 25 - 55 year olds that get into the most drunk driving accidents. The 55-75 year olds have the lowest accident rate.

http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/2012/tables/12s1114.pdf