Showerthought: that 2007 prediction about everyone wearing smart glasses was way off

I was cleaning out my old bookmarks last night and found a CNET article from December 2007 that said by 2015, over 80% of Americans would be walking around with internet connected glasses. We barely even got smartwatches to stick, and most people I know still just use their phones. Even Google Glass came and went in like 2 years, and now we're all just back to staring down at our screens. Anybody else remember those wild predictions about wearable computing taking over?

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nathan_torres347d ago

There was a Wired piece I skimmed last year that said the biggest problem was nobody wanted to look like a dork wearing them in public, which honestly checks out.

craig.reese7d ago

Yeah those predictions AGED about as well as milk left in a hot truck.