Every day, hundreds of millions of people stab themselves, bleed, and then offer, like a sacrifice, to the glucose monitor they're carrying with them. It's such a bad user interface that even though in the medium-term it's life or death for these people, hundreds of millions of people don't engage in this user interface.
When technology reaches that level of invisibility in our lives, that's our ultimate goal. It vanishes into our lives. It says, 'You don't have to do the work; I'll do the work.'
If we want to help Google become something meaningfully different in the future, then that's more likely to happen if we focus on the physical world instead.
Doing exercise without monitoring yourself will be rare in the future of wearable technology.
I grant that people are generally uncomfortable with how fast privacy issues are changing in the world, but Google Glass is not going to move the needle on that.
Google is already overflowing with incredibly creative bright groups already working on lots of the software problems of the world.
Really great entrepreneurs have this very special mix of unstoppable optimism and scathing paranoia.
Every time you drop the price by a factor of two, you roughly get a 10 times pickup of the number of people who will seriously consider buying it.
Google Glass is the wearable computer that responds to voice commands and displays information on a visual display.
I started my second company in 1999. BodyMedia was set up to take advantage of the future of wearables - sensors and computing worn on our bodies in any and all ways that could make our lives better.
I'm a father to four kids, so it bothers me that even though our children think big naturally, our society systematically trains them out of thinking that way.
