"The question is what does it do for someone other than serve as a status artifact on their face? The smartphone is a very productive technology. Does the Google Glass substantially enhance your ability to do things beyond what you can already do with your smartphone?” asks Fred Turner, who studies media and technology at Stanford.

Turner says that part of the problem is that Silicon Valley is marketing to itself.

"If you actually go to the Google Glass marketing website, you see a picture of a male biker and female golfer: wealthy, hyper individuated, really very much in pursuit of their own individual success, all of which are characteristics of a kind of Silicon Valley type and make sense in the Valley, but that’s not what the world is made of; Valley folks who want to enhance their personal productivity by being online while they ride their bikes,” he said.

And while some tech workers might trade privacy for productivity, many people feel differently.

According to a recent report put out by market research firm Toluna, 72 percent of Americans would not purchase Glass because of privacy concerns. Also listed among reasons people don’t want the product: safety, distractibility and concerns about being mugged.

In an article about his experiences wearing Glass, Honan wrote: "Again and again, I made people very uncomfortable. That made me very uncomfortable. ... People get angry at Glass. They get angry at you for wearing Glass.”

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