Day 100

The Odometer Rolls Over

There it is, the big "100" in the title.  Although I'm three months behind on my Plone Metrics posts, I managed this effort with only a couple days that slipped over the midnight mark by a few hours. 

Now that I'm back from Berkeley and Portland, I'm concentrating on getting ready for our field exercise comparing mobile ICT with manual methods for arms control inspections.  With Syrian chemical weapons attacks still in the news and negotiations with Iran hitting a snag, it's clear that arms control and nuclear nonproliferation are still critically important issues.  The question is where does Glass fit and how can it help? 

On "All Tech Considered" tonight they discussed how the Internet and activist blogging is affecting the behavior of states and nations.  With Glass you don't have to hold up a cellphone camera or even have a GoPro's black box on your helmet in order to capture a moment.  While Glass is still clunky and geeky, in a crowd it can be difficult to spot (at least the black and beige styles).  I can see where Glass could really enable accurate and timely recording of events... in Afghanistan, in the Ukraine, in November.

In five more years, the functionality of Glass will fit within standard frames.  In ten more years, wearable systems will be more like embeddable systems with digital contact lenses and implants.  The great wave is here. 

The fact that Glass is, at a minimum, a webcam on your face means that you can capture that fleeting instant and then share it with your friends, your co-workers, the world.  From there, it's a matter of social network behavior to see what happens. 

I've had a hoot forcing myself to use Glass in a meaningful way everyday for the past 3+ months.  As a bike rider, as a tourist, as a scientist, as a gardener, and as a nonproliferation specialist, I've tried to use Glass in situations that ranged from commonplace to the esoteric.  My ego let me think that I had a lock on nuclear nonproliferation and Glass.  Silly me... two other Explorers turned up at the INMM Info Analysis Conference.  But I'll wager I'm the only one who's taken a picture of a B-61 #throughglass. 

But until I get it through review and approval, I'll settle for posting a portrait of my cat Paddy.

100 Days of Glass won't end tonight.  Tomorrow, or maybe the next day, I'll try to summarize all the suggestions, ideas and improvements that came to mind since this blog started. 

TTFN