Jeff Holmes: belief

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…It will go down as one of the great movies of its time, like Frankenstein or City Lights or Gone with the Wind. Total clear winner. Relatedly, you did a review of Google Glass in 2013. Thinking about Google Glass, you were not a fan of it. I think you found it just hard to use. Now, in 2023, we have this product that I guess will launch next year. That’s an AI pin that you primarily talk to. It’s supposed to be, in some sense, a substitute for your phone, so you’re not on your screen all the time. What do you make of that? Will you try it out? I will try out the pin. The thing I’m most bullish about is the Meta glasses. They’re not out yet. I believe they’ll be priced below $200, and they’ll be what Google Glass was trying to be, except now we have all the tech. I was very sympathetic to the idea of Google Glass. I give Google a lot of credit. I don’t think it worked, and the market agreed with me, but that was step one. With LLMs being so much better, we’re ready for a step that people are going to want to use. The privacy issues will be tricky, but it’s going to happen in some form, no matter what. The notion that you can wear glasses and talk to your glasses, and they’ll tell you whatever you want to know — that’s going to be here to stay.…

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