The Doctor

I don’t know anymore. “Companies” is the key word there. Depending on how far you want to go to hold to your values, you might have go all the way back to scratch building a RepRap.

Before anybody asks, no, I’m not being sarcastic. That might be what it takes these days.

I did not. Between the social backlash of Google Glass (c.f., what happened to Steven Mann in France about a decade ago) and the product being DV’d, I gave up on it and moved my research into cold storage.

I was writing code for Google Glass that implemented facial recognition. A friend of mine suffered a TBI in an automobile wreck and developed partial facial prosopagnosia as a result. I was basically writing software that would recognize faces within 15 feet of the wearer and compare it to images of their contacts in their Google account, and would throw up an AR subtitle identifying the person on a match. Not too long after I filed the developer applications and outlined my project, the Glass project flatlined.

I still don’t think I should have told them I was working on a software prosthetic for it.

Surprising no one who’s ever had to work with it for longer than sixty seconds.

Google happened to it. Right when some of us started doing practical things with it. Still haven’t forgiven them for that.