Jeepers creepers, this is sure something to look forward to. (NOT!)

Hey, I didn't like Mark Zuckerberg to begin with, and now he's giving me yet another WTF moment with his musings on what will soon replace the smartphone as the it device:

Zuckerberg has talked about the element that will change the technological landscape. It is smart glasses. "They will become the next big computing platform," says Mark.

This will be the change.

According to him, this is what will happen with glasses: "There will come a point where your smartphone will be in your pocket more than out of it, I think that will happen during the 2030s and although you may be able to perform the task in a more complete or better way with your phone, users will opt for the convenience of glasses to do so." Source: Marca)

I'm not a member of the "I'll give you my gun when you pry it from my cold, dead hands" brigade - although, come to think of it, in the 2030s I may well have cold, dead hands to pry something out of. I hope it's a home made chocolate chip cookie - but do I really want to replace my phone and my laptop with a pair of smart glasses?

Quick answer: no. 

But, hey, I'm not a billionaire boy genius, and MZ, boy-to-man genius, thinks that, as an eyeglass wearer, I'll be an early adopter:

I think that it’s pretty easy to wrap your head around [the idea that] there are already 1 to 2 billion people who wear glasses on a daily basis. Just like everyone who upgraded to smartphones, I think everyone who has glasses is pretty quickly going to upgrade to smart glasses over the next decade. And then I think it’s going to start being really valuable, and a lot of other people who aren’t wearing glasses today are going to end up wearing them, too. (Source: Forbes)

Zuck isn't the only one, of course. All the cool tech futurists are saying that AI, AR (Augmented Reality), and VR (Virtual Reality) are going to make glasses so damned smart that we'll look back at the days whe we actually carried the universe of knowledge and connectivity in the palm of our hands as something nearly as old school as Little House on the Prairie. Smartphones? How dumb were they? One step up from a stereopticon.

How is having always on glasses - where always on means always connected to the 'net, and not always on, as in once I get out of bed in the morning, my glasses are always on - going to be less distracting, less distancing from others, than smartphones.

The Forbes writer is all in, by the way, even though they admit:

It’s potentially disconcerting that the glasses might detach us even further from being present in real life.

Oh, that.

The same writer also gives us a nifty use case, in which a salesperson can spot a client or prospect, and his glasses will whisper in their ear what they do, where they're from, when you last saw them, how many kids they have, what teams they root for, and - of course - how much they spend (or could spend) with your company.

All I can say is that if your average salesperson is all in on smart glasses, include me out. 

And what about your smart glasses being able to tell you everything about everybody you're just walking by on the street, not just the sales-targeted schlubbs you meet at conferences? I guess this is already possible with facial recognition enabled by AI on a smartphone. But with a smartphone, it would be a bit more obvious that someone was checking you out and checking up on you. With smart glasses, well, how you going to know that the guy passing by now knows everything he needs to know about everybody. Talk about invasion of the privacy snatchers.

I'm not a Luddite. Not entirely, anyway. But I really don't want this to be the change. To harken back to a radio hit of my childhood, "I got along without you before I met you, gonna get along without you now."

And to harken even further back: Jeepers creepers!