What Google Glass Got Right, is Right Now


Often a product fails because the market isn’t into it. And sometimes because the timing is wrong. Few product failures have achieved the legendary status of Google Glass. It belongs in that rare category alongside New Coke, the Apple Newton, and a handful of other products that became cultural shorthand for big companies getting it wrong. I remember the reaction so clearly. People did NOT want a camera pointed at them from somebody else’s face. The privacy concerns were immediate. The social...