Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 26/07/2026AI has really paved the way for the erosion of consent and the use of other people’s images that these panopticon glasses require as a cultural base line. I do think there’s a powerful connection between people becoming acculturated to AI products || accepting that spy glasses are the new normal. 542479
Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Also, this is from 2014 and it’s still relevant theory/background: it matters who is irresistibly positioned as the object and who is the subject of these technologies. That has a huge effect on failure or adoption, & is a historical process as much as anything else: bsky.app/profile/hist...Mar Hicks@histoftech.bsky.socialYes. Once again thinking about Kate Losse’s work: modelviewculture.com/pieces/the-m...modelviewculture.comThe Male GazedSurveillance, Power, and Gender 217423
Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 26/07/2026I do think one other reason Google glass failed is because the people who were the imagined object were too powerful in relation to the emerging users—they were almost the same group. If meta’s glasses really ARE “pervert glasses” this alters the power relationship in ways I think many don’t realize 213817