 | |  | | Tom LaSusa | | | | | Thanks for your thoughts last week on Google Glass. I received some great responses, with the majority of you sharing the same concerns I had about being over-connected and distracted. Funny enough, the same theme kept recurring through most of those emails as well: wear google glass, walk through plate glass. I forsee a number of youtube videos in the future. There's another concern I didn't even get into last week: device theft. Smartphone thefts are rapidly becoming commonplace. Very soon, we will all know someone or know of someone who has had their phone either stolen from a bag or ripped right out of their hands. Expressing concern, New York attorney general Eric Schneiderman has written to the CEOs of Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung, asking them to make changes to their devices so that crooks will have a harder time wiping the devices for resell. At the same time, device owners need to take some responsiblity. I know, it sounds a little like blaming the victim -- but the fact is we live in a rough world with some mean charcters. We've learned to keep our wallets in our side pockets and our handbags closed. Smartphone users need to train themselves to be similarly vigilent, putting the device away as soon as the call, text or search is done, and not leaving it out on a resturaunt table (can't count how many times I've seen that). Which is why I worry further for Google Glass wearers. There's no covering the device up when not in use -- its stitting right there on your face. If Glass gets a solid grasp in the consumer market, I fear we'll see an even bigger jump in the crime statistics. Sigh. This is why we can't have nice things. Tom LaSusa
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