Zuckerberg is a Glasshole
Mark Zuckerberg, the genius who envisioned there would be one billion people in the Metaverse — he only got that wrong by a billion and nearly blew up his company in the process — is now bullish on wearable glasses.
More specifically, he’s excited by a new wearables prototype built by his company, called Orion, that was released into a select few hands this week. In one interview, he lauded that “it’s going to be the next major computing platform.”
Is it just me, or is this all sounding like a broken record? More tech overlords and their obsession with the Next Big Thing. The man pivots the direction of his company so quickly and so often that he must be suffering a terrible dose of whiplash. It’s gone from social media to the Metaverse, to pushing AI sludge, and now to trying to stuff that AI sludge into wearable glasses. He’s adamant that this time, his company is onto a winner, predicting that smart glasses will gradually replace phones by 2030.
I don’t think that’s a prediction — I think that’s a commercial dream at best and wishful thinking at worst.
It’s important to consider why Zuckerberg is pushing wearable glasses as the next frontier for computing platforms. It’s because he needs it to be.
- Zuckerberg needs wearable glasses to be the next major platform because Meta got burned by Apple’s…