What Happens When You Walk Into a Bar Wearing Google Glasses
Alexis Madrigal in The Atlantic:
“When you buy a new phone, it’s in your pocket, but this, you’re wearing something on your face. Anyone that cares what they look like is not gonna wear Google glasses. That’s my opinion,” [bar owner Tom] Madonna said. “If you are super nerdy and you like to show off that you’re in tech and smart and all those things, I can see you probably wearing Google Glasses, but you are probably in a bubble or … new. We’ve all heard all this stuff. Like, this guy moved to SF and he comes to the bar. He’s from Scottsdale and he’s using all these [tech] words. I had to stop him. I said, ‘You sound interesting and different in Phoenix, but you sound boring here. You are cliche.’”
This article is the hipster version of Tom Friedman presenting some obvious conventional wisdom a cab driver said to him as insight. I guess the trick is finding a pretentious bartender.
