Smart Glasses Are Ushering In an Antisocial World
On this episode of Tech Won’t Save Us: Chris Gilliard on how tech CEOs are hawking their latest luxury line of AI-powered smart glasses.
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Smart Glasses Are Ushering In An Anti-Social World w/ Chris Gilliard | Tech Won’t Save Us
Paris Marx is joined by Chris Gilliard to discuss how tech CEOs are pushing a new generation of AI-powered smart glasses by promising they’ll be stylish and indispensable to workers in a desperate attempt to convince us we should want their luxury surveillance gadgets.
Chris Gilliard is the co-director of the Critical Internet Studies Institute and is working on a book called Luxury Surveillance.
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$799 Meta Ray-Ban Display AI glasses at Meta headquarters in Menlo Park, California.
(David Paul Morris / Bloomberg via Getty Images)Paris Marx is joined by Chris Gilliard to discuss how tech CEOs are pushing a new generation of AI-powered smart glasses by promising they’ll be stylish and indispensable to workers, in a desperate attempt to convince us we should want their luxury surveillance gadgets.
Chris Gilliard is the codirector of the Critical Internet Studies Institute and is working on a book called Luxury Surveillance.
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Paris Marx is joined by Nathan Grayson to discuss how Saudi Arabia is buying its way into the sports, comedy, and video game industries in order to broaden its investment portfolio and launder its international reputation.
Nathan Grayson is a cofounder of Aftermath and the author of Stream Big: The Triumphs and Turmoils of Twitch and the Stars Behind the Screen.
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