Rod Furlan, IEEE Spectrum:

The key insight I had while wear­ing my own ver­sion of Google Glass is that the true value of wear­able point-of-view com­put­ing will not be in the ini­tial goal of sup­port­ing aug­mented real­ity, which sim­ply over­lays infor­ma­tion about the scene before the user. Instead, the great­est value will be in second-generation appli­ca­tions that pro­vide total recall and aug­mented cog­ni­tion. Imagine being able to call up (and share) every­thing you have ever seen, or read the tran­scripts for every con­ver­sa­tion you ever had, along­side the names and faces of every­one you ever met.

If only Google Glass didn’t look so geeky…