Musk, Gates, and Zuckerberg announce the end of the smartphone

Elon Musk is betting everything on Neuralink, a brain-machine interface that allows for device control through thought…Bill Gates is promoting electronic tattoos equipped with nanosensors…Mark Zuckerberg is betting on augmented reality glasses developed with Meta, promising to integrate the digital into our daily field of vision.

Smart glasses, maybe. But even then there are a lot of creepy privacy concerns. That’s part of why Google Glass was shelved in 2015. I draw the line at injecting and implanting tech. Hard pass.

@grubz surely creepy privacy concerns never stopped them - more like it’s what they were born for.

@writingslowly yeah that’s my biggest turnoff with things like this. Not just the fact that anyone can be recording you from their giant Facebook glasses without you knowing, but that the glasses are tracking everything the person wearing them is doing and seeing. Phones already collect way too much data.