The irony, of course, was the fact that as young as eleven years old I was documenting my life using the earliest version of blogging platforms available. (Yes, I even used Greymatter.) But though I was staying up up past my bedtime to lament about my teenage life, I was was still living it.
The same can be said about much of my 20's, although the stellar camera on my iPhone 5, and apps like Instagram, have put me behind the lense again in much of the same way as it did when I was 16, which admittedly can take one out of the experience just to capture and remember it for later.
The concept of Google Glass seems to remove this barrier between living life and capturing it. Seemingly seamlessly, Google Glass wearers can capture their life while still immersed in the experience.
At least, that's the pitch. The reality is that Google Glass wearers will have the barrier of a screen between them and life - a screen with apps that can distract and literally get in the way of the experience of life. A screen with video that is about another experience. A screen that reminds you that you need to remember this experience for later - not experience it for the now.
Looking at the data that was captured about who "won" the "If I Had Glass" competition, it's probable I had a good shot at scoring a pair. Though I'm the early adopter type and the use of technology was ingrained in me since very early childhood, the concept of Google Glass never appealed to me - though it was, and still is, incredibly intriguing from the viewpoint of its impact on how society uses technology. That said, not only can so many things go wrong when constantly capturing your life with what is essentially a video camera attached to your head (because, let's face it, there are some things we just should not be sharing,) there is so much of my life I want to experience for the sake of experiencing it.
Sure, I might grab my phone and snap a picture on the journey. Maybe I'll post it on Instagram, tweet it, send it out to a few friends on Facebook. But I can't live my life behind a camera for the hope that either others will live vicariously through me - or that someday I'll remember that moment.
I'd rather fully enjoy those moments when they are, as they are, than worry about capturing that moment for the sake of remembering, someday in the future, the fact it just merely happened .
